scholarly journals Deep Learning-Based Context-Aware Recommender System Considering Contextual Features

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Soo-Yeon Jeong ◽  
Young-Kuk Kim
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Data Sparsity ◽  
Contextual Features ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Multidimensional Matrix ◽  
Sparsity Problem

A context-aware recommender system can make recommendations to users by considering contextual information such as time and place, not only the scores assigned to items by users. However, as a user preferences matrix is expanded in a multidimensional matrix, data sparsity is maximized. In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based context-aware recommender system that considers the contextual features. Based on existing deep learning models, we combine a neural network and autoencoder to extract characteristics and predict scores in the process of restoring input data. The newly proposed model is able to easily reflect various type of contextual information and predicts user preferences by considering the feature of user, item and context. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method is mostly superior to the existing method in all datasets. Also, for the dataset with data sparsity problem, it was confirmed that the performance of the proposed method is higher than that of existing methods. The proposed method has higher precision by 0.01–0.05 than other recommender systems in a dataset with many context dimensions. And it showed good performance with a high precision of 0.03 to 0.09 in a small dimensional dataset.

scholarly journals A CONTEXT-AWARE TOURISM RECOMMENDER SYSTEM BASED ON A SPREADING ACTIVATION METHOD

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W4 ◽  
pp. 333-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Bahramian ◽  
R. Ali Abbaspour ◽  
C. Claramunt
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
User Profile ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Activation Technique ◽  
Spreading Activation ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
The City

Users planning a trip to a given destination often search for the most appropriate points of interest location, this being a non-straightforward task as the range of information available is very large and not very well structured. The research presented by this paper introduces a context-aware tourism recommender system that overcomes the information overload problem by providing personalized recommendations based on the user’s preferences. It also incorporates contextual information to improve the recommendation process. As previous context-aware tourism recommender systems suffer from a lack of formal definition to represent contextual information and user’s preferences, the proposed system is enhanced using an ontology approach. We also apply a spreading activation technique to contextualize user preferences and learn the user profile dynamically according to the user’s feedback. The proposed method assigns more effect in the spreading process for nodes which their preference values are assigned directly by the user. The results show the overall performance of the proposed context-aware tourism recommender systems by an experimental application to the city of Tehran.

Improving personalised query reformulation with embeddings

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152096869
Author(s):  
Xiaojuan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Graphical Model ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Query Reformulation ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Current State ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Historical Queries

As a mechanism to guide users towards a better representation of their information needs, the query reformulation method generates new queries based on users’ historical queries. To preserve the original search intent, query reformulations should be context-aware and should attempt to meet users’ personal information needs. The mainstream method aims to generate candidate queries first, according to their past frequencies, and then score (re-rank) these candidates based on the semantic consistency of terms, dependency among latent semantic topics and user preferences. We exploit embeddings (i.e. term, user and topic embeddings) to use contextual information and individual preferences more effectively to improve personalised query reformulation. Our work involves two major tasks. In the first task, candidate queries are generated from an original query by substituting or adding one term, and the contextual similarities between the terms are calculated based on the term embeddings and augmented with user personalisation. In the second task, the candidate queries generated in the first task are evaluated and scored (re-ranked) according to the consistency of the semantic meaning of the candidate query and the user preferences based on a graphical model with the term, user and topic embeddings. Experiments show that our proposed model yields significant improvements compared with the current state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals Web crawling based context aware recommender system using optimized deep recurrent neural network

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Venugopal Boppana ◽  
P. Sandhya
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Bald Eagle ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Deep Recurrent Neural Network

AbstractRecommendation systems are obtaining more attention in various application fields especially e-commerce, social networks and tourism etc. The top items are recommended based on the ability of recommender system which predict the future preference out of the available items. Because of the internet, the people in the current society has too many options that’s why the recommendation system is very essential. The recommendation is achieved by the particular users who predict the ratings for numerous items and recommend those items to other users. Majorly, content and collaborative filtering techniques are employed in typical recommendation systems to find user preferences and provide final recommendations. But, these systems commonly lacks to take growing user preferences in various contextual factors. Context aware recommendation systems consider various contextual parameters into account and attempt to catch user preferences appropriately. The majority of the work in the recommender system domain focuses on increasing the recommendation accuracy by employing several proposed approaches where the main motive remains to maximize the accuracy of recommendations while ignoring other design objectives, such as a user’s an item’s context. Therefore, in this paper an effective deep learning based context aware recommendation model is proposed which can be act as an efficient recommender system by showing minimum error during recommendation. Initially, the dataset is pre-processed using Natural Language Tool Kit (NLTK) in Python platform. After pre-processing, the TF–IDF and word embedding model is used for every pre-processed reviews to extract the features and contextual information. The extracted feature is considered as an input of density based clustering to group the negative, neutral and positive sentiments of user reviews. Finally, deep recurrent neural Network (DRNN) is employed to get the most preferable user from every cluster. The recurrent neural network model parameter values are initialized through the fitness computation of Bald Eagle Search (BES) algorithm. The proposed model is implemented using NYC Restaurant Rich Dataset using Python programming platform and performance is evaluated based on the metrics of accuracy, precision, recall and compared with existing models. The proposed recommendation model achieves 99.6% accuracy which is comparatively higher than other machine learning models.

scholarly journals Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation for Korean Honorific Expressions

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 1589
Author(s):  
Yongkeun Hwang ◽  
Yanghoon Kim ◽  
Kyomin Jung
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Deep Neural Networks ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Neural Machine Translation ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Relationship

Neural machine translation (NMT) is one of the text generation tasks which has achieved significant improvement with the rise of deep neural networks. However, language-specific problems such as handling the translation of honorifics received little attention. In this paper, we propose a context-aware NMT to promote translation improvements of Korean honorifics. By exploiting the information such as the relationship between speakers from the surrounding sentences, our proposed model effectively manages the use of honorific expressions. Specifically, we utilize a novel encoder architecture that can represent the contextual information of the given input sentences. Furthermore, a context-aware post-editing (CAPE) technique is adopted to refine a set of inconsistent sentence-level honorific translations. To demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method, honorific-labeled test data is required. Thus, we also design a heuristic that labels Korean sentences to distinguish between honorific and non-honorific styles. Experimental results show that our proposed method outperforms sentence-level NMT baselines both in overall translation quality and honorific translations.

A Recommendation Model for Energy-Efficient Data Mining Services Based on Data Properties

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainab Al-Zanbouri
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Rating Data ◽  
Recommendation Accuracy

Currently, there is a big increase in the usage of data analytics applications and services because of the growth in the data produced from different sources. The QoS properties such as response time and latency of these services are important factors to decide which services to select. As a result of IT expansion, energy consumption has become a big issue. Therefore, establishing a QoS-based web service recommender system that considers energy consumption as one of the essential QoS properties represents a significant step towards selecting the energy efficient web services. This dissertation presents an experimental study on energy consumption levels and latency behavior collected from a set of data mining web services running on different datasets. Our study shows that there is a strong relation between the dataset properties and the QoS properties. Based on the findings from this study, a recommender system is built which considers three dimensions (user, service, dataset). The energy consumption values of candidate services invoked by specific users can be predicted for a given dataset. Afterwards, these services can be ranked according to their predicted energy values and presented to users. We propose three approaches to build our recommender system and we treat it as a context-aware recommendation problem. The dataset is considered as contextual information and we use a context-aware matrix factorization model to predict energy values. In the first approach, we adopt the pre-filtering model where the contextual information serves as a query for filtering relevant rating data. In the second approach, we propose a new method for the pre-filtering implementation. Finally, in the last approach, we adopt the contextual modeling method and we explore different ways of representing dataset information as contextual factors to investigate their impacts on the recommendation accuracy. We compare the proposed approaches with the baseline approaches and the results show the effectiveness of the proposed ones. Also, we compare the performance of the three approaches to discover the best-fit approach when being measured using different metrics. Both prediction and recommendation accuracy of the proposed approaches are significantly better than the baseline models.

A Hybrid Context Aware Recommender System with Combined Pre and Post-Filter Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugdha Sharma ◽  
Laxmi Ahuja ◽  
Vinay Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Contextual Modeling ◽  
Filter Approach ◽  
Post Filter

The domain of context aware recommender approaches has made substantial advancement over the last decade, but many applications still do not include contextual information while providing recommendations. Contextual information is crucial for various application areas and should not be ignored. There are generally three algorithms which can be used to include context and those are: pre-filter approach, post-filter approach, and contextual modeling. Each of the algorithms has their own drawbacks. The proposed approach modifies the post filter approach to rectify its shortcomings and combines it with the pre-filter approach based on the importance of contextual attribute provided by the user. The results of experimental setup also demonstrate that the proposed system improves the precision and ranking of the recommendations provided to user. With the help of this hybrid approach, the proposed system eliminates the problem of sparsity which is present in the pre-filter algorithm, and has performance improvement over the traditional post-filter approach.

Context-Aware Recommender System for Location-Based Advertising

2011 ◽  
Vol 467-469 ◽  
pp. 2091-2096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyun Chul Ahn ◽  
Kyoung Jae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Classification Rule ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Good Market ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Marketing Tool

Demand for context-aware systems continues to grow due to the diffusion of mobile devices. This trend may represent good market opportunities for mobile service industries. Thus, context-aware or location-based advertising (LBA) has been an interesting marketing tool for many companies. However, some studies reported that the performance of context-aware marketing or advertising has been quite disappointing. In this study, we propose a novel context-aware recommender system for LBA. Our proposed model is designed to apply a modified collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm with regard to the several dimensions for the personalization of mobile devices – location, time and the user’s needs type. In particular, we employ a classification rule to understand user’s needs type using a decision tree algorithm. We empirically validated the effectiveness of the proposed model by using a real-world dataset. Experimental results show that our model makes more accurate and satisfactory advertisements than comparative systems.

scholarly journals CFDIL: A Context-aware Feature Deep Interaction Learning for  App Recommendation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingbo Hao ◽  
Ke Zhu ◽  
Chundong Wang ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Xiuliang Mo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Interaction Data ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
The One

Abstract The rapid development of Mobile Internet has spa-wned various mobile applications (apps). A large number of apps make it difficult for users to choose apps conveniently, causing the app overload problem. As the most effective tool to solve the problem of app overload, the app recommendation has attracted extensive attention of researchers. Traditional recommendation methods usually use historical data of apps used by users to explore their preferences, and then make an app recommendation list for users. Although the traditional app recommendation methods have achieved certain results, the performance of app recommendation still needs to be improved due to the following two reasons. On the one hand, it is difficult to construct traditional app recommendation models when facing with the sparse user-app interaction data. On the other hand, contextual information has a large impact on users’ app usage preferences, which is often overlooked by traditional app recommendation methods. To overcome the aforementioned problems, we proposed a Context-aware Feature Deep Interaction Learning (CFDIL) method to explore user preferences, and then perform app recommendation by learning potential user-app relationships in different contexts. The novelty of CFDIL is as follows: (1) CFDIL incorporates contextual features into users' preferences modeling by constructing a novel user and app feature portrait. (2) The problem of data sparsity is effectively solved by the use of dense user and app feature portraits, as well as the tensor operations for label sets. (3) CFDIL trains a new deep network structure, which can make accurate app recommendation using the contextual information and attribute information of users and apps. We applied CFDIL on three real datasets and conducted extensive experiments, which showed that CFDIL outperformed the benchmark method.

scholarly journals Design and Development of a Context-aware Personalized Recommendation System: Mobile and Web Application

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Saeedi ◽  
Xueyang Zou ◽  
Mariel Gonzales ◽  
Steve Liang
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Personalized Recommendation ◽  
Context Information ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Context Reasoning ◽  
Past Behavior

The ubiquity of mobile sensors (such as GPS, accelerometer and gyroscope) together with increasing computational power have enabled an easier access to contextual information, which proved its value in next generation of the recommender applications. The importance of contextual information has been recognized by researchers in many disciplines, such as ubiquitous and mobile computing, to filter the query results and provide recommendations based on different user status. A context-aware recommendation system (CoARS) provides a personalized service to each individual user, driven by his or her particular needs and interests at any location and anytime. Therefore, a contextual recommendation system changes in real time as a user’s circumstances changes. CoARS is one of the major applications that has been refined over the years due to the evolving geospatial techniques and big data management practices. In this paper, a CoARS is designed and implemented to combine the context information from smartphones’ sensors and user preferences to improve efficiency and usability of the recommendation. The proposed approach combines user’s context information (such as location, time, and transportation mode), personalized preferences (using individuals past behavior), and item-based recommendations (such as item’s ranking and type) to personally filter the item list. The context-aware methodology is based on preprocessing and filtering of raw data, context extraction and context reasoning. This study examined the application of such a system in recommending a suitable restaurant using both web-based and android platforms. The implemented system uses CoARS techniques to provide beneficial and accurate recommendations to the users. The capabilities of the system is evaluated successfully with recommendation experiment and usability test.

scholarly journals Recognizing Human Daily Activity Using Social Media Sensors and Deep Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (20) ◽  
pp. 3955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junfang Gong ◽  
Runjia Li ◽  
Hong Yao ◽  
Xiaojun Kang ◽  
Shengwen Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Learning Sequence ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Application Fields ◽  
Access Data

The human daily activity category represents individual lifestyle and pattern, such as sports and shopping, which reflect personal habits, lifestyle, and preferences and are of great value for human health and many other application fields. Currently, compared to questionnaires, social media as a sensor provides low-cost and easy-to-access data sources, providing new opportunities for obtaining human daily activity category data. However, there are still some challenges to accurately recognizing posts because existing studies ignore contextual information or word order in posts and remain unsatisfactory for capturing the activity semantics of words. To address this problem, we propose a general model for recognizing the human activity category based on deep learning. This model not only describes how to extract a sequence of higher-level word phrase representations in posts based on the deep learning sequence model but also how to integrate temporal information and external knowledge to capture the activity semantics in posts. Considering that no benchmark dataset is available in such studies, we built a dataset that was used for training and evaluating the model. The experimental results show that the proposed model significantly improves the accuracy of recognizing the human activity category compared with traditional classification methods.

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