Title
Stylometric relevance-feedback towards a hybrid book recommendation algorithm
Abstract
Reading is an important activity for individuals. Content-based recommendation systems are, typically, used to recommend scientific papers or news, where search is driven by topic. Literary reading or reading for leisure differs from scientific reading, because users search books not only for their topic but also by author or writing style. Choosing a new book to read can be tricky and recommendation systems can make it easy by selecting books that the user will like. In this paper we study recommendation through writing style and the influence of negative examples in user preferences. Our experiments were conducted in a hybrid set-up that combines a collaborative filtering algorithm with stylometric relevance feedback. Using the LitRec data set, we demonstrate that writing style influences book selection; that book content, characterized with writing style, can be used to improve collaborative filtering results; and that negative examples do not improve final predictions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2390116.2390125
Proceedings of the fifth ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories and complementary media
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
hybrid book recommendation algorithm,stylometric relevance-feedback,recommendation system,scientific paper,new book,book content,scientific reading,negative example,users search book,book selection,literary reading,content-based recommendation system,recommendation systems,stylometry
Conference
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paula Cristina Vaz1222.49
David Martins de Matos215229.19
Bruno Martins344134.58