Recently, collaborative tagging has become popular in the web2.0 world. Tags can be helpful if used for the recommendation
since they reflect characteristic content features of the resources. However, there are few researches which introduce tags
into the recommendation. This paper proposes a tag-based recommendation framework for scientific literatures which models
the user interests with tags and literature keywords. A hybrid recommendation algorithm is then applied which is similar to
the user-user collaborative filtering algorithm except that the user similarity is measured based on the vector model of user
keywords other than the rating matrix, and that the rating is not from the user but represented as user-item similarity computed
with the dot-product-based similarity instead of the cosine-based similarity. Experiments show that our tag-based algorithm
is better than the baseline algorithm and the extension of user model and dot-product-based similarity computation are also
helpful.
This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 90412010, HP Labs China under “On
line course organization”.