Hybrid algorithms for recommending new items in personal TV
Fabio Airoldi, Paolo Cremonesi, Roberto Turrin · 2011
Recommending TV programs in the interactive TV domain is a difficult task since the catalog of available items is very dynamic, i.e., items are continuously added and removed. Despite recommender systems based on collaborative filtering typically outperform content-based systems in terms of recommendation quality, they suffer from the new item problem, i.e., they are not able to recommend items that have few or no ratings. On the contrary, content-based recommender systems are able to recommend both old and new items but the general quality of the recommendations in terms of relevance to the users is low. In this article we present two different approaches for buildinghybridcollaborative+contentrecommendersystems, whosepurposeistoproducerelevantrecommendations,while overcoming the new item issue. The approaches are tested ontheimplicitratingscollectedfrom15’000IPTVusersover a period of six months. 1.