Title
Reinforcement Learning over Sentiment-Augmented Knowledge Graphs towards Accurate and Explainable Recommendation
Abstract
ABSTRACTExplainable recommendation has gained great attention in recent years. A lot of work in this research line has chosen to use the knowledge graphs (KG) where relations between entities can serve as explanations. However, existing studies have not considered sentiment on relations in KG, although there can be various types of sentiment on relations worth considering (e.g., a user's satisfaction on an item). In this paper, we propose a novel recommendation framework based on KG integrated with sentiment analysis for more accurate recommendation as well as more convincing explanations. To this end, we first construct a Sentiment-Aware Knowledge Graph (namely, SAKG) by analyzing reviews and ratings on items given by users. Then, we perform item recommendation and reasoning over SAKG through our proposed Sentiment-Aware Policy Learning (namely, SAPL) based on a reinforcement learning strategy. To enhance the explainability for end-users, we further developed an interactive user interface presenting textual explanations as well as a collection of reviews related with the discovered sentiment. Experimental results on three real-world datasets verified clear improvements on both the accuracy of recommendation and the quality of explanations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3488560.3498515
WSDM
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Explainable recommendation, knowledge graph, sentiment analysis
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sung-Jun Park100.34
Dong-Kyu Chae25910.07
Hong-Kyun Bae301.01
Sumin Park400.34
Sang-Wook Kim5792152.77