Recommendation Technologies: Survey of Current Methods and Possible Extensions

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Gediminas Adomavicius

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management

Alexander Tuzhilin

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business; New York University (NYU) - Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences

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Date Written: 2004

Abstract

The paper presents a survey of the field of recommender systems anddescribes current recommendation methods that are usually classified into thefollowing three main categories: content-based, collaborative, and hybridrecommendation approaches. The paper also describes various limitations ofcurrent recommendation methods and discusses possible extensions that canimprove recommendation capabilities. These extensions include, among others,improvement of understanding of users and items, incorporation of the contextualinformation into the recommendation process, support for multi-criteria ratings,and provision of more flexible and less intrusive types of recommendations.

Keywords: recommender systems, survey, rating estimation methods, extensions to recommender systems

Suggested Citation

Adomavicius, Gediminas and Tuzhilin, Alexander, Recommendation Technologies: Survey of Current Methods and Possible Extensions (2004). NYU Working Paper No. 2451/14115, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1281312

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