On the Influence of User Characteristics on Music Recommendation Algorithms

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Abstract

We investigate a range of music recommendation algorithm combinations, score aggregation functions, normalization techniques, and late fusion techniques on approximately 200 million listening events collected through Last.fm. The overall goal is to identify superior combinations for the task of artist recommendation. Hypothesizing that user characteristics influence performance on these algorithmic combinations, we consider specific user groups determined by age, gender, country, and preferred genre. Overall, we find that the performance of music recommendation algorithms highly depends on user characteristics.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2015

Fields of science

  • 202002 Audiovisual media
  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 102001 Artificial intelligence
  • 102003 Image processing
  • 102015 Information systems

JKU Focus areas

  • Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
  • Engineering and Natural Sciences (in general)

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