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Learning Item Temporal Dynamics for Predicting Buying Sessions

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Veronika Bogina,

Osnat MokrynAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '16: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Pages 251 - 255

https://doi.org/10.1145/2856767.2856781

Published: 07 March 2016 Publication History

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Predicting whether a session is a buying session (e.g. will end with buying an item) is an ongoing research task. Drawing from recent experience in Web search and movie recommenders, we explore the effect of temporal trends and characteristics on the ability to predict buying sessions. We suggest a new approach, based on items' temporal dynamics, together with sessions' temporal aspects for predicting whether a session is going to end up with a purchase. We suggest a model for estimating the probability of a session to end with a purchase, according to the purchase history of items clicked on during the session over the past few days. The predictions can be used by recommender systems, enabling them to take relevant actions, thus improving shoppers experience as well as increasing sales for e-commerce companies. Our findings shed light on the importance of considering temporal dynamics in items recommendations in e-commerce sites. Empirical results on imbalanced e-commerce dataset with more than nine million sessions demonstrate that we achieve high Precision, Recall and ROC in predicting whether session ends up with a purchase or not.

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Learning Item Temporal Dynamics for Predicting Buying Sessions
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Decision support systems
      1. Expert systems

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