Overview on NLP Techniques for Content-based Recommender Systems for Books

Melania Berbatova


Abstract
Recommender systems are an essential part of today’s largest websites. Without them, it would be hard for users to find the right products and content. One of the most popular methods for recommendations is content-based filtering. It relies on analysing product metadata, a great part of which is textual data. Despite their frequent use, there is still no standard procedure for developing and evaluating content-based recommenders. In this paper, we will first examine current approaches for designing, training and evaluating recommender systems based on textual data for books recommendations for GoodReads’ website. We will give critiques on existing methods and suggest how natural language techniques can be employed for the improvement of content-based recommenders.
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R19-2009
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Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2019
Month:
September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
Editors:
Venelin Kovatchev, Irina Temnikova, Branislava Šandrih, Ivelina Nikolova
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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Pages:
55–61
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https://aclanthology.org/R19-2009
DOI:
10.26615/issn.2603-2821.2019_009
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Melania Berbatova. 2019. Overview on NLP Techniques for Content-based Recommender Systems for Books. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2019, pages 55–61, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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