Abstract:The recommender system becomes a significant research area due to the popularity of the social web. Traditional semantic recommender systems deliver poor performance when balancing the recommendation accuracy and diversity. Also, the rank-based recommendation methods lack to obtain the coverage of the entire preferences of the user in the top-N recommendation list. Thus, this paper presents the Diversity-Ensured Semantic-aware Item REcommendation (DESIRE) that deals with the consistent and reliable knowledge source to significantly improve the quality and provide the diversity-ensured top-N recommendation list. The DESIRE approach builds the semantically relevant graphs such as movie-centric and user rating-centric graph with the help of both the Linked Open Data (LOD) and the explicit ratings of the users. By extracting the semantic-path based features from the user rating-centric graph, it executes the ranking algorithm for the top-N movie recommendation. Moreover, the diversity-aware re-ranking tends to maintain the trade-off between the diversity and accuracy in the top-N recommendation.