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.
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%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
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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.}},
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posted-at = {2012-03-08 20:52:03},
priority = {2},
publisher = {ACM},
series = {RecSys '08},
timestamp = {2021-07-12T23:24:54.000+0200},
title = {{Mining recommendations from the web}},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1454008.1454015},
year = 2008
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