Research Article

Dealing with Pure New User Cold-Start Problem in Recommendation System Based on Linked Open Data and Social Network Features

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Comparison with other techniques.

S.noPublicationDatasetSimilarity measureEnvironment applicationSocial networkOntology usedLinked Open DataTechnique used

(1)Addressing the user cold start with cross-domain collaborative filtering: exploiting item metadata in matrix factorization [5]FacebookOtherBook, movies, music (cross domain)FacebookNoDBpediaCross-domain collaborative filtering using matrix factorizartion models
(2)Latent factor representations for cold-start video recommendation [6]Video Emotion, Amazon ProductNoVideos (domain independent)NoNoNoLearning latent factor representation for videos based on modeling the emotional connection between user and item
(3)Using linked data to build open, collaborative recommender systems [12]Smart RadioBinary cosine similarityMusicNoNoDBpedia, MyspaceUsed linked data about items for collaborative filtering algorithm
(4)An effective recommender algorithm for cold-start problem in academic social networks [7]Created MyExpert appOthersAcademic itemAcademic social networkNoNoEnhanced content-based algorithm using social networking
(5)A method to solve cold-start problem in recommendation system based on social network sub-community and ontology decision model [8]MovieLensPearson similarityVideosNo informationTaxanomyNoCombining social subcommunity division and ontology decision model
(6)Exploring social network information for solving cold start in product recommendation [9]Douban WebsiteOtherBooksDouban WebsiteNoNoUsed social network textual information to model user interest and item
(7)Using semantic web to reduce the cold-start problems in recommendation systems [47]MovieLensComposed Similarity, Property Similarity, Jaccard, Jaro WinklerMovieNoYesNoUsed semantic web structure and ontology
(8)Proposed approachMovieLens, Yahoo WebscopeNew similarity measure and Euclidean distanceDomain independentFacebookYesDBpediaRecommendation based on user and item clustering, improved ontology similarity, and taking into account the social network and Linked Open Data features
(9)Social network data to alleviate cold start in recommender system: A systematic review [32]Review paper: Systematic combining papers published between 2011 and 2017 on dealing cold-start problems using social network data