%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:10428809 %A Shani, Guy %A Chickering, Max %A Meek, Christopher %B Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Recommender systems %C New York, NY, USA %D 2008 %I ACM %K popularity recommender %P 35--42 %R 10.1145/1454008.1454015 %T Mining recommendations from the web %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1454008.1454015 %X In this paper we study the challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of data collected from the web for recommendations. We provide experimental results, including a user study, showing that our methods produce good recommendations in realistic applications. We propose a new evaluation metric, that takes into account the difficulty of prediction. We show that the new metric aligns well with the results from a user study. %@ 978-1-60558-093-7

@inproceedings{citeulike:10428809, abstract = {{In this paper we study the challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of data collected from the web for recommendations. We provide experimental results, including a user study, showing that our methods produce good recommendations in realistic applications. We propose a new evaluation metric, that takes into account the difficulty of prediction. We show that the new metric aligns well with the results from a user study.}}, added-at = {2018-03-19T12:24:51.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Shani, Guy and Chickering, Max and Meek, Christopher}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/220d8faa219af99196f271fa9182c7bdc/aho}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Recommender systems}, citeulike-article-id = {10428809}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1454008.1454015}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1454008.1454015}, doi = {10.1145/1454008.1454015}, interhash = {035901def642c057d1fddef65f069242}, intrahash = {20d8faa219af99196f271fa9182c7bdc}, isbn = {978-1-60558-093-7}, keywords = {popularity recommender}, location = {Lausanne, Switzerland}, pages = {35--42}, posted-at = {2012-03-08 20:52:03}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {RecSys '08}, timestamp = {2018-03-19T12:24:51.000+0100}, title = {{Mining recommendations from the web}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1454008.1454015}, year = 2008 }