MoviExplain: a recommender system with explanations

Providing justification to a recommendation gives credibility to a recommender system. Some recommender systems (Amazon.com etc.) try to explain their recommendations, in an effort to regain customer acceptance and trust. But their explanations are poor, because they are based solely on rating data, ignoring the content data. Our prototype system MoviExplain is a movie recommender system that provides both accurate and justifiable recommendations. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search-Retrieval]: Information Filtering. General Terms: Algorithms, Performance. Keywords: Recommender Systems, Explanations

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: RECSYS
• Authors: Panagiotis Symeonidis, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos
• Keywords: Movie Recommender, Recommendation Gives Credibility, Recommender Systems, RECSYS 2009