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This paper proposes a recommendation method that focuses on not only predictive accuracy but also serendipity. On many of the conventional recommendation methods, items are categorized according to their attributes (a genre, an authors, etc.) by the recommender in advance, and recommendation is made using the results of the categorization. In this study, impressions of users to items are adopted as a feature of the items, and each item is categorized according to the feature. Impressions used in such categorization are prepared using folksonomy, which classifies items using tags given by users. Next, the idea of “concepts” was introduced to avoid synonym and polysemy problems of tags. “Concepts” are impressions of users on items inferred from attached tags of folksonomy. The inferring method was also devised. A recommender system based on the method was developed in java language, and the effectiveness of the proposed method was verified through recommender experiments.
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This work was presented in part at the 18th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Daejeon, Korea, January 30–February 1, 2013.
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Yamaba, H., Tanoue, M., Takatsuka, K. et al. On a serendipity-oriented recommender system based on folksonomy. Artif Life Robotics 18, 89–94 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-013-0103-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-013-0103-3