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We consider the problem of developing a recommender system for suggesting suitable matches in an online dating web site. The main problem to be solved is that matches must be highly personalized. Moreover, in contrast to typical product recommender systems, it is unhelpful to recommend popular items: matches must be extremely specific to the tastes and interests of the user, but it is difficult to generate such matches because of the two way nature of the interactions (user initiated contacts may be rejected by the recipient). In this paper, we show that collaborative filtering based on interactions between users is a viable approach in this domain. We propose a number of new methods and metrics to measure and predict potential improvement in user interaction success, which may lead to increased user satisfaction with the dating site. We use these metrics to rigorously evaluate the proposed methods on historical data collected from a commercial online dating web site. The evaluation showed that, had users been able to follow the top 20 recommendations of our best method, their success rate would have improved by a factor of around 2.3.
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Krzywicki, A. et al. (2010). Interaction-Based Collaborative Filtering Methods for Recommendation in Online Dating. In: Chen, L., Triantafillou, P., Suel, T. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2010. WISE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6488. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17616-6_31
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