Combining Deep Learning and Topic Modeling for Review Understanding in Context-Aware Recommendation

Mingmin Jin, Xin Luo, Huiling Zhu, Hankz Hankui Zhuo


Abstract
With the rise of e-commerce, people are accustomed to writing their reviews after receiving the goods. These comments are so important that a bad review can have a direct impact on others buying. Besides, the abundant information within user reviews is very useful for extracting user preferences and item properties. In this paper, we investigate the approach to effectively utilize review information for recommender systems. The proposed model is named LSTM-Topic matrix factorization (LTMF) which integrates both LSTM and Topic Modeling for review understanding. In the experiments on popular review dataset Amazon , our LTMF model outperforms previous proposed HFT model and ConvMF model in rating prediction. Furthermore, LTMF shows the better ability on making topic clustering than traditional topic model based method, which implies integrating the information from deep learning and topic modeling is a meaningful approach to make a better understanding of reviews.
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N18-1145
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers)
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June
Year:
2018
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1605–1614
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/N18-1145
DOI:
10.18653/v1/N18-1145
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Mingmin Jin, Xin Luo, Huiling Zhu, and Hankz Hankui Zhuo. 2018. Combining Deep Learning and Topic Modeling for Review Understanding in Context-Aware Recommendation. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers), pages 1605–1614, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Combining Deep Learning and Topic Modeling for Review Understanding in Context-Aware Recommendation (Jin et al., NAACL 2018)
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