• Information Systems Review
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.155-183
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• 2016

Research on personalized recommender service that uses big data has gained considerable attention given the increasing volume of contents being created. This development indicates the need for service providers to collect personal information and content rating data to personalize content recommendations. Previous studies on this topic proposed algorithms to offer improved recommendations using minimal rating data or service designs and increase the number of ratings. However, limited studies have been conducted on the factors that motivate the ratings input of users, as well as the factors that influence their continuous usage of recommender service. The present study explored the factors that motivate users to enter ratings by conducting in-depth interviews with users who use recommender services. The meanings of these ratings were also explored. Results show that the meaning and usage range of ratings differed based on the stage of a user's with utilization of the service. When users input an initial rating, they treat such a rating as a database to save the impression of a past experience. Such a rating is then used as a tool to reflect the current feeling and thoughts of a user. In the end, users were not only interested in their own rating system, but they also actively sought out the meaning of the rating systems of others and utilized them. Users also expressed mistrust in the recommendations of the service because they were aware of the limitation of the algorithms. This study identified a number of practical implications regarding recommender services.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.408-411
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• 2016

애플리케이션에서 고객들에 의해 생성된 평가정보는 해당 콘텐츠에 대한 고객별 선호도 정보로 볼 수 있기 때문에, 개인에게 맞춤형 추천 시스템을 설계하기 위해서 매우 중요하다. 현재 추천 시스템 분야에서 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 사용자 기반 추천 시스템은 사용자의 평점 정보만을 가지고 유사도를 측정하여 추천에 사용하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 평점 정보만을 가지고 사용자 유사도를 도출하는 것은 정밀하지 못할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 사용자의 평점 정보 뿐만 아니라 콘텐츠의 내용을 활용하여 사용자의 선호 콘텐츠를 지식구조의 형태로 나타냄으로써 콘텐츠와 사용자의 관계를 유기적으로 표현하였다. 이와 같은 사용자의 지식구조를 바탕으로 사용자간의 유사도를 평가하고 추천에 활용하였고, 실험결과 제시된 방법으로 더 우수한 성능을 얻을 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.125-141
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• 2014

Nowadays, overflowing data produced every second from the internet make people to be difficult to search for the useful information. That's why people have invented and developed unique tools that they get some relevant information. In this paper, the recommender system, one of the effective tools, is used and it helps us to get the useful information that we want by using demographic information to predict new items of interest. The demographic recommender system in this paper computes users' similarity using demographic information, age and gender. So we performed demographic analysis on movie ratings on Internet Movie Database (IMDB) web site that movies are rated by thousands of people, where users submitted a movie rating after they watched a recent popular film. Meanwhile, we can understand that user's ratings, among various determinants of box office, is very essential factor in the study on recommendation of movie. This paper is aimed at analyzing movie average ratings directly given by film viewers, categorizing them into groups by sex and age, investigating the entire group and finding the representative group by examining it with F-test and T-test. This result is used to promote and recommend for the target group only. Therefore, this study is considerably significant as presenting utilization for movie business as well as showing how to analyze demographic information on movie ratings on the web.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.582-587
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• 2021

Book recommender system, which suggests book to users according to their book taste and preference effectively improves users' book-reading experience and exposes them to variety of books. Insufficient dataset of book rating records by users degrades the quality of recommendation. In this study, we suggest a book recommendation system that makes use of user's book ratings collaboratively with user's movie ratings where more abundant datasets are available. Through comprehensive experiment, we prove that our methods improve the recommendation quality and effectively recommends more diverse kind of books. In addition, this will be the first attempt for book recommendation system to utilize movie rating data, which is from the media-platform other than books.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.503-505
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• 2017

최근 길거리나 지하철 등에서 스마트폰을 사용하는 사람을 쉽게 찾을 수 있다. 이러한 스마트폰은 대부분 iOS나 안드로이드 운영체제를 사용한다. 따라서 스마트폰에서 사용하는 앱들은 앱스토어나 구글 플레이에서 받아서 사용한다. 하지만, 필요한 앱을 검색해도 비슷한 앱이 많아서 어떤 것을 사용해야 할지 망설이는 경우가 발생한다. 사용자 평점을 기준으로 앱을 선택한다 하더라도 총 누적 평점이기 때문에 현재 버전의 앱이 실제로 어떨지는 알기 어렵다. 이 논문에서는 사용자가 검색한 단어를 바탕으로 구글 플레이 상의 앱을 추천해주는 시스템을 소개한다. 이 시스템은 검색된 최신 버전의 앱에 대한 평점과 사용자 평가를 종합 및 분석하여 사용자에게 추천한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.901-904
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 사진의 태그정보 및 통계정보, 사용자 평점을 이용하여 여행에 앞서 본인의 취향 등에 맞는 개인화 된 여행계획을 생성할 수 있도록 지원하는 연구를 진행하였다. 개인화 된 여행계획의 자동생성을 위하여, 나이, 성별, 직업, 소득, 학력에 따라 선호하는 여행의 태마를 통계자료를 통해 구분하였고, 사진의 태그정보를 이용하여 사용자가 가장 선호하는 테마를 분별하여 개인화 할 수 있도록 하였다. 이렇게 구분된 태마는 다양한 포털사이트에 등록된 사용자 평점 정보를 토대로 하여 여행계획을 생성하여 사용자에게 제공할 수 있도록 하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.3 no.12
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• pp.537-546
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to develope an algorithm which generates trip plans based on rating points of travel app users and travel experts to help potential travellers experience their desired destinations in advance. This algorithm uses the above rating points and the gradually created hierarchy to generate the most preferred and efficient trip courses. Users can go through video clips or panoramic VR videos of the actual destinations from their trip plans generated by the algorithm which may add excitement to their actual trips. With our heuristic methods, the more users input their ratings, the better trip plans can be generated. This algorithm has been tested on android OS and proven efficient in generating trip plans. This research introduces a way to experience travel destinations with panoramic VR video and proposes the algorithm which generates trip plans based on users' ratings. It is expected to be useful for travellers' trip planning and to contribute growth in the travel market.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.65-87
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• 2017

We propose a method to analyze the user reviews and ratings of the products in the online shopping mall and automatically extracts the features of the products to determine the characteristics of a product. By judging whether a rating is given by a specific feature of a product, our method distributes the score to each feature. Conventional methods force users to wastes time reading overflowing number of reviews and ratings to decide whether to buy the product or not. Moreover, it is difficult to grasp the merits and demerits of the product, because of the way reviews and ratings are provided. It is structured in a way that it is impossible to decide which rating is given to the which characteristics of the product. Therefore, in this paper, to resolve this problem, we propose a method to automatically extract the feature of the product from the user review and distribute the score to appropriate characteristics of the product by calculating the rating of each feature from the overall rating. proposed method collects product reviews and ratings, conducts morphological analysis, and extracts features and emotional words of the products. In addition, a method for determining the polarity of a sentence in which the feature appears is given a weight value for each feature. results of the experiment and the questionnaires comparing the existing methods show the usefulness of the proposed method. We also validates the results by comparing the analysis conducted by the product review experts.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.311-328
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• 2022

Because of the spread of smartphones due to the development of information and communication technology, online shopping mall services can be used on computers and mobile devices. As a result, the number of users using the online shopping mall service increases rapidly, and the types of products traded are also growing. Therefore, to maximize profits, companies need to provide information that may interest users. To this end, the recommendation system presents necessary information or products to the user based on the user's past behavioral data or behavioral purchase records. Representative overseas companies that currently provide recommendation services include Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube. These companies support users' purchase decisions by recommending products to users using ratings, purchase records, and clickstream data that users give to the items. In addition, users refer to the ratings left by other users about the product before buying a product. Most users tend to provide ratings only to products they are satisfied with, and the higher the rating, the higher the purchase intention. And recently, e-commerce sites have provided users with the ability to vote on whether product reviews are helpful. Through this, the user makes a purchase decision by referring to reviews and ratings of products judged to be beneficial. Therefore, in this study, the correlation between the product rating and the helpful information of the review is identified. The valuable data of the evaluation is reflected in the recommendation system to check the recommendation performance. In addition, we want to compare the results of skipping all the ratings in the traditional collaborative filtering technique with the recommended performance results that reflect only the 4 and 5 ratings. For this purpose, electronic product data collected from Amazon was used in this study, and the experimental results confirmed a correlation between ratings and review usefulness information. In addition, as a result of comparing the recommendation performance by reflecting all the ratings and only the 4 and 5 points in the recommendation system, the recommendation performance of remembering only the 4 and 5 points in the recommendation system was higher. In addition, as a result of reflecting review usefulness information in the recommendation system, it was confirmed that the more valuable the review, the higher the recommendation performance. Therefore, these experimental results are expected to improve the performance of personalized recommendation services in the future and provide implications for e-commerce sites.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.1333-1337
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• 2017

Recommender systems (RS) that predict a set of items a target user is likely to prefer have been extensively studied in academia and have been aggressively implemented by many companies such as Google, Netflix, eBay, and Amazon. Data imputation alleviates the data sparsity problem occurring in recommender systems by inferring missing ratings and adding them to the original data. In this paper, we point out the drawbacks of existing approaches and make suggestions for data imputation techniques. We also justify our suggestions through extensive experiments.