User Profile Construction for Recommendation System with use of Social Web Sites

DOI: 10.5176/978-981-08-8227-3_WebTech2011_25

Authors: Hyun Namgoong, KyoungMin Lee, HyoungJae Park, Sungkwon Yang and Hong-Gee Kim

Abstract:
With expanding use of the internet, online-commercial sites are getting popular, and a recommendation system takes an important role in the environment. To overcome limitations of history-based recommendation systems, recent researches are devoted to invent different type of recommendation systems.Knowledge-based recommendation system which comparing a user profile with characteristic of items consumes knowledge about users, user profile. This paper proposes an approach for user profile construction through social web sites like twitter.com, facebook.com for the knowledge-based recommendation system.This paper will describes over all architecture for the user profile construction and data reproduction methods to derive other explicit information from the gathered data.

Keywords: Knowledge based Recommendation Sysetm; UserProfile; Social Web; Trust; Intimacy; Open API