Improving the MAE by Removing Lower Rated Items in Recommender System

  • Kim, Sun-Ok (Department of Communication Engineering, Halla University) ;
  • Lee, Seok-Jun (Department of Business Administration, Sangji University) ;
  • Park, Young-Seo (Dept. of Mathematics, Sunmoon University)
  • Published : 2008.08.31

Abstract

Web recommender system was suggested in order to solve the problem which is cause by overflow of information. Collaborative filtering is the technique which predicts and recommends the suitable goods to the user with collection of preference information based on the history which user was interested in. However, there is a difficulty of recommendation by lack of information of goods which have less popularity. In this paper, it has been researched the way to select the sparsity of goods and the preference in order to solve the problem of recommender system's sparsity which is occurred by lack of information, as well as it has been described the solution which develops the quality of recommender system by selection of customers who were interested in.

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