Study on Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Model Fusing User Reviews

Abstract

The traditional collaborative filtering model suffers from high-dimensional sparse user rating information and ignores user preference information contained in user reviews. To address the problem, this paper proposes a new collaborative filtering model UL_SAM (UBCF_LDA_SIMILAR_ADD_MEAN) which integrates topic model with user-based collaborative filtering model. UL_SAM extracts user preference information from user reviews through topic model and then fuses user preference information with user rating information by similarity fusion method to create fusion information. UL_SAM creates collaborative filtering recommendations according to fusion information. It is the advantage of UL_SAM on improving recommendation effectiveness that UL_SAM enriches information for collaborative recommendation by integrating user preference with user rating information. Experimental results of two public datasets demonstrate significant improvement on recommendation effectiveness in our model.