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IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Flexible Unsupervised PP-Attachment Method Using Semantic Information
In this paper we revisit the classical NLP problem of prepositional phrase attachment (PPattachment). Given the pattern V −NP1−P −NP2 in the text, where V is verb, NP1 is a ...
Srinivas Medimi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
AAAI
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Transfer Learning in Collaborative Filtering for Sparsity Reduction
Data sparsity is a major problem for collaborative filtering (CF) techniques in recommender systems, especially for new users and items. We observe that, while our target data are...
Weike Pan, Evan Wei Xiang, Nathan Nan Liu, Qiang Y...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
SoRec: social recommendation using probabilistic matrix factorization
Data sparsity, scalability and prediction quality have been recognized as the three most crucial challenges that every collaborative filtering algorithm or recommender system conf...
Hao Ma, Haixuan Yang, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Unifying user-based and item-based collaborative filtering approaches by similarity fusion
Memory-based methods for collaborative filtering predict new ratings by averaging (weighted) ratings between, respectively, pairs of similar users or items. In practice, a large ...
Jun Wang, Arjen P. de Vries, Marcel J. T. Reinders