Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithm Based on TF-IDF and User Characteristics

• Published in: Applied sciences 2021-10, Vol.11 (20), p.9554
• Main Authors: Ni, Jianjun, Cai, Yu, Tang, Guangyi, Xie, Yingjuan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Accuracy; Adaptive algorithms; Algorithms; Cold; Collaboration; collaborative recommendation; Filtration; fuzzy membership function; Methods; Ratings & rankings; Recommender systems; Similarity; Sparsity; TF-IDF method; user characteristics; weighted fusion
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app11209554

The recommendation algorithm is a very important and challenging issue for a personal recommender system. The collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm is one of the most popular and effective recommendation algorithms. However, the traditional collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm does not fully consider the impact of popular items and user characteristics on the recommendation results. To solve these problems, an improved collaborative filtering algorithm is proposed, which is based on the Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) method and user characteristics. In the proposed algorithm, an improved TF-IDF method is used to calculate the user similarity on the basis of rating data first. Secondly, the multi-dimensional characteristics information of users is used to calculate the user similarity by a fuzzy membership method. Then, the above two user similarities are fused based on an adaptive weighted algorithm. Finally, some experiments are conducted on the movie public data set, and the experimental results show that the proposed method has better performance than that of the state of the art.