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Recommender systems, which have emerged in response to the problem of information overload, provide users with recommendations of contents that are likely to fit their needs. One notable challenge in a recommender system is the cold start problem. To address this issue, we propose a collaborative approach to user modeling for generating personalized recommendations for users. Our approach first discovers useful and meaningful patterns of users, and then enriches a personal model with collaboration from other similar users. In order to evaluate the performance of our approach, we compare experimental results with those of a probabilistic learning model, a user-based collaborative filtering, and vector space model. We present experimental results that show how our model performs better than existing work.
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Kim, HN., Ha, I., Lee, SH., Jo, GS. (2008). A Collaborative Approach to User Modeling for Personalized Content Recommendations. In: Buchanan, G., Masoodian, M., Cunningham, S.J. (eds) Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information. ICADL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_22
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