• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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FolkRank++: An Optimization of FolkRank Tag Recommendation Algorithm Integrating User and Item Information

Vol. 15, No. 1, January 31, 2021
10.3837/tiis.2021.01.001, Download Paper (Free):

Abstract

The graph-based tag recommendation algorithm FolkRank can effectively utilize the relationships between three entities, namely users, items and tags, and achieve better tag recommendation performance. However, FolkRank does not consider the internal relationships of user-user, item-item and tag-tag. This leads to the failure of FolkRank to effectively map the tagging behavior which contains user neighbors and item neighbors to a tripartite graph. For item-item relationships, we can dig out items that are very similar to the target item, even though the target item may not have a strong connection to these similar items in the user-item-tag graph of FolkRank. Hence this paper proposes an improved FolkRank algorithm named FolkRank++, which fully considers the user-user and item-item internal relationships in tag recommendation by adding the correlation information between users or items. Based on the traditional FolkRank algorithm, an initial weight is also given to target user and target item's neighbors to supply the user-user and item-item relationships. The above work is mainly completed from two aspects: (1) Finding items similar to target item according to the attribute information, and obtaining similar users of the target user according to the history behavior of the user tagging items. (2) Calculating the weighted degree of items and users to evaluate their importance, then assigning initial weights to similar items and users. Experimental results show that this method has better recommendation performance.


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[IEEE Style]
J. Zhao, Q. Zhang, Q. Sun, H. Huo, Y. Xiao, M. Gong, "FolkRank++: An Optimization of FolkRank Tag Recommendation Algorithm Integrating User and Item Information," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-19, 2021. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2021.01.001.

[ACM Style]
Jianli Zhao, Qinzhi Zhang, Qiuxia Sun, Huan Huo, Yu Xiao, and Maoguo Gong. 2021. FolkRank++: An Optimization of FolkRank Tag Recommendation Algorithm Integrating User and Item Information. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 15, 1, (2021), 1-19. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2021.01.001.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:24227, title="FolkRank++: An Optimization of FolkRank Tag Recommendation Algorithm Integrating User and Item Information", author="Jianli Zhao and Qinzhi Zhang and Qiuxia Sun and Huan Huo and Yu Xiao and Maoguo Gong and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2021.01.001}, volume={15}, number={1}, year="2021", month={January}, pages={1-19}}