Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
Volume 32, Issue 7, Pages 1290-1303Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2019.2904066
Keywords
Correlation; Games; Context modeling; Social networking (online); Probabilistic logic; Recommender systems; Task analysis; Group recommendation; probabilistic generative model; event recommendation; event-based social networks
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- Mutual Project of Beijing Municipal Education Commission of China
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Event recommendation is essential to help people find attractive events to attend, but it intrinsically faces cold-start problem. The previous studies exploit multiple contextual factors to overcome the cold-start problem in event recommendation. However, they do not consider the correlation among different contextual factors. Moreover, suggesting events for a group of users also has not been well studied. In this paper, we first discover the correlation between organizer and textual content, i.e., the events held by the same organizer tend to have more similar content. Based on this observation, we present a content-venue-aware topic model (CVTM) to capture group interests on an event from two perspectives: content and venue. The correlation between organizer and content is modeled in CVTM to alleviate the sparsity of textual content, and then we can further extract group interests on content of an event more accurately. Finally, a group event recommendation method using CVTM is proposed. We conduct comprehensive experiments to evaluate the recommendation performance of our model on two real-world datasets. The results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods that suggest upcoming events for groups. Besides, CVTM can learn semantically coherent latent topics which are useful to explain recommendations.
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