Fast Explainable Recommendation Model by Combining Fine-Grained Sentiment in Review Data.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

With the rapid development of e-commerce, recommendation system has become one of the main tools that assists users in decision-making, enhances user's experience, and creates economic value. Since it is difficult to explain the implicit features generated by matrix factorization, explainable recommendation system has attracted more and more attention recently. In this paper, we propose an explainable fast recommendation model by combining fine-grained sentiment in review data (FSER, (Fast) Fine-grained Sentiment for Explainable Recommendation). We innovatively construct user-rating matrix, user-aspect sentiment matrix, and item aspect-descriptive word frequency matrix from the review-based data. And the three matrices are reconstructed by matrix factorization method. The reconstructed results of user-aspect sentiment matrix and item aspect-descriptive word frequency matrix can provide explanation for the final recommendation results. Experiments in the Yelp and Public Comment datasets demonstrate that, compared with several classical models, the proposed FSER model is in the optimal recommendation accuracy range and has lower sparseness and higher training efficiency than tensor models or neural network models; furthermore, it can generate explanatory texts and diagrams that have high interpretation quality.

Authors

  • Ying Wang
    Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, China.
  • Xin He
    Department of Nephrology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical, Guizhou, China.
  • Hongji Wang
    Key Laboratory of Symbol Computation and Knowledge Engineering (Jilin University), Ministry of Education, Changchun 130012, China.
  • Yudong Sun
    School of Physical Education, Fuyang Normal University, Fuyang 236000, China.
  • Xin Wang
    Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science & Technology (Northeast Forestry University), Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China.