A comparative study of algorithms for recommending given names
Marcos Aurélio Domingues, Everton Alvares Cherman, Bruno M. Nogueira, Merley S. Conrado, Rafael Geraldeli Rossi, Renan de Pádua, Ricardo Marcondes Marcacini, Vinícius M. A. Souza, Gustavo E. A. P. A. Batista, Solange Oliveira Rezende · 2013
Recommending given names is a special case of recommender system that is little explored, but has gained a great interest recently. Indication of names related to a user's query or suggestion of names for parents in order to choose a name for their unborn child are examples of applications of name recommendation. In this paper, we present results for this task by using a baseline approach that recommends only the most frequent searched names, two state-of-the-art recommender systems, and a proposed method based on graph. The empirical evaluation shows that our method based on graph provides better results than the other methods.