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Mining Customer Preference Ratings For Product Recommendation Using The Support Vector Machine And The Latent Class Model

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

25

Pages

10

Published

2000

Size

1,014 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/DATA000581

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

William K. Cheung, James T. Kwok, Martin H. Law & Kwok-Ching Tsui

Abstract

As Internet commerce becomes more popular, customers' preferences on var- ious products can now be readily acquired on-line via various e-commerce systems. Properly mining this extracted data can generate useful knowledge for providing personalized product recommendation services. In general, recommender systems use two complementary techniques. Content-based systems match customer interests with products attributes, while collabo- rative filtering systems utilize preference ratings from other customers. In this paper, we address some problems faced by these two syste

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