# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

July  2016, 1(2&3): 261-274. doi: 10.3934/bdia.2016008

## Time aware topic based recommender system

Received  August 2016 Revised  October 2016 Published  November 2016

News recommender systems efficiently handle the overwhelming number of news articles, simplify navigations, and retrieve relevant information. Many conventional news recommender systems use collaborative filtering to make recommendations based on the behavior of users in the system. In this approach, the introduction of new users or new items can cause the cold start problem, as there will be insufficient data on these new entries for the collaborative filtering to draw any inferences for new users or items. Content-based news recommender systems emerged to address the cold start problem. However, many content-based news recommender systems consider documents as a bag-of-words neglecting the hidden themes of the news articles. In this paper, we propose a news recommender system leveraging topic models and time spent on each article. We build an automated recommender system that is able to filter news articles and make recommendations based on users' preferences. We use topic models to identify the thematic structure of the corpus. These themes are incorporated into a content-based recommender system to filter news articles that contain themes that are of less interest to users and to recommend articles that are thematically similar to users' preferences. Our experimental studies show that utilizing topic modeling and spent time on a single article can outperform the state of the arts recommendation techniques. The resulting recommender system based on the proposed method is currently operational at The Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/).
Citation: Elnaz Delpisheh, Aijun An, Heidar Davoudi, Emad Gohari Boroujerdi. Time aware topic based recommender system. Big Data & Information Analytics, 2016, 1 (2&3) : 261-274. doi: 10.3934/bdia.2016008
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