Information Retrieval and Folksonomies together for Recommender Systems

Abstract

The powerful and democratic activity of social tagging allows the wide set of Web users to add free annotations on resources. Tags express user interests, preferences and needs, but also automatically generate folksonomies. They can be considered as gold mine, especially for e-commerce applications, in order to provide effective recommendations. Thus, several recommender systems exploit folksonomies in this context. Folksonomies have also been involved in many information retrieval approaches. In considering that information retrieval and recommender systems are siblings, we notice that few works deal with the integration of their approaches, concepts and techniques to improve recommendation. This paper is a first attempt in this direction. We propose a trail through recommender systems, social Web, e-commerce and social commerce, tags and information retrieval: an overview on the methodologies, and a survey on folksonomy-based information retrieval from recommender systems point of view, delineating a set of open and new perspectives

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