Personalized topic modeling for recommending user-generated content

Abstract

User-generated content (UGC) such as blogs and twitters are exploding in modern Internet services. In such systems, recommender systems are needed to help people filter vast amount of UGC generated by other users. However, traditional rec-ommendation models do not use user authorship of items. In this paper, we show that with this additional information, we can significantly improve the performance of recommendations. A generative model that combines hierarchical topic modeling and matrix factorization is proposed. Empirical results show that our model outperforms other state-of-the-art models, and can provide interpretable topic structures for users and items. Furthermore, since user interests can be inferred from their productions, rec-ommendations can be made for users that do not have any ratings to solve the cold-start problem.

Keywords

User-generated content (UGC) / Collaborative filtering (CF) / Matrix factorization (MF) / Hierarchical topic modeling

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