Applying Deep Learning Models to Analyze Users' Aspects, Sentiment, and Semantic Features for Product Recommendation

Chin-Hui Lai, Kuo-Chiuan Tseng
2022 Applied Sciences  
As there is a huge amount of information on the Internet, people have difficulty in sorting through it to find the required information; thus, the information overload problem becomes a significant issue for users and online businesses. To resolve this problem, many researchers and applications have proposed recommender systems, which apply user-based collaborative filtering, meaning it only considers the users' rating history to analyze their preferences. However, users' text data may contain
more » ... sers' preferences or sentiment information, and such information can be used to analyze users' preferences more precisely. This work proposes a method called the aspect-based deep learning rating prediction method (ADLRP), which can extract the aspects, sentiment, and semantic features from users' and items' reviews. Then, the deep learning method is used to generate users' and items' latent factors. According to these three features, the matrix factorization method is applied to make rating predictions for items. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than the traditional rating prediction methods and conventional artificial neural networks. The proposed method can precisely and efficiently extract the sentiments and semantics of each aspect from review texts and enhance the prediction performance of rating predictions.
doi:10.3390/app12042118 fatcat:qvu6jzwx5beo7hgpn5o7gxtyzm