Towards a folksonomy graph-based context-aware recommender system of annotated books

Abstract

The emergence of collaborative interactions has empowered users by enabling their interactions through tagging practices that create a folksonomy, also called, classification of the shared resources, any identifiable thing or item on the system. In education, tagging is considered a powerful meta-cognitive strategy that successfully engages learners in the learning process. Besides, the collaborative tagging gathers learners’ opinions, thus, provides more comprehensible recommendations. Still, the abundant shared contents are mostly unorganized which makes it hard for users to select and discover the appropriate items of their interests. Thus, the use of recommender systems overcomes the distressing search problem by assisting users in their searching and exploring experience, and suggesting relevant items matching their preferences. In this regard, this article presents a folksonomy graphs based context-aware recommender system (CARS) of annotated books. The generated graphs express the semantic relatedness between these resources, i.e. books, by effectively modeling the folksonomy relationship between user-resource-tag and integrating contextual information within a multi-layer graph referring to a Knowledge Graph (KG). To put our proposal into shape, we model a real-world application of Goodbooks-10k dataset to recommend books. The proposed approach incorporates spectral clustering to deal with the graph partitioning problem. The experimental evaluation shows relevant performance results of graph-based book recommendations.

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