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Personalized information access tools are frequently based on collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms. Collaborative filtering recommender systems typically suffer from a data sparsity problem, where systems do not have sufficient user data to generate accurate and reliable predictions. Prior research suggested using group-based user data in the collaborative filtering recommendation process to generate group-based predictions and partially resolve the sparsity problem. Although group recommendations are less accurate than personalized recommendations, they are more accurate than general non-personalized recommendations, which are the natural fall back when personalized recommendations cannot be generated. In this work we present initial results of a study that exploits the browsing logs of real families of users gathered in an eHealth portal. The browsing logs allowed us to experimentally compare the accuracy of two group-based recommendation strategies: aggregated group models and aggregated predictions. Our results showed that aggregating individual models into group models resulted in more accurate predictions than aggregating individual predictions into group predictions.
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Berkovsky, S., Freyne, J., Coombe, M. (2009). Aggregation Trade Offs in Family Based Recommendations. In: Nicholson, A., Li, X. (eds) AI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10439-8_65
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