Title
Characterizing Relationships Through Co-Clustering a Probabilistic Approach
Abstract
In this paper we propose a probabilistic co-clustering approach for pattern discovery in collaborative filtering data. We extend the Block Mixture Model in order to learn about the structures and relationships within preference data. The resulting model can simultaneously cluster users into communities and items into categories. Besides its predictive capabilities, the model enables the discovery of significant knowledge patterns, such as the analysis of common trends and relationships between items and users within communities/categories. We reformulate the mathematical model and implement a parameter estimation technique. Next, we show how the model parameters enable pattern discovery tasks, namely: (i) to infer topics for each items category and characteristic items for each user community; (ii) to model community interests and transitions among topics. Experiments on MovieLens data provide evidence about the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
KDIR 2011: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Collaborative filtering,Recommender systems,Block clustering,Co-clustering
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data mining,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Biclustering,Probabilistic logic,Machine learning
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicola Barbieri151129.53
Gianni Costa223524.04
Giuseppe Manco391868.94
Ettore Ritacco417124.86