Extending recommendation algorithms bymodeling user context
Theodoros Vasiloudis · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2014
Recommender systems have been widely adopted by onlinee-commerce websites like Amazon and music streaming services like Spotify. However, most research efforts have not sufficiently considered the context in which recommendations are made, especially when the input is implicit.In this work, we investigate the value of including contextual information like day-of-week in collaborative filtering recommender systems. For the investigation, we first implemented two algorithms, namely contextual prefiltering and contextual post-filtering. Then, we evaluated these algorithms with user data collected from Spotify.Experiment results show that the pre-filtering algorithm shows some promise against an item similarity baseline, indicating that further investigation could be rewarding. The post-filtering algorithm underperforms a popularity-derived baseline, due to information loss in the recommendation process.