Evaluating Recommender Systems

• Published in: Recommender Systems Handbook pp. 265 - 308
• Main Authors: Gunawardana, Asela, Shani, Guy
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA Springer US 2015
• Subjects: Item Pair; Mean Absolute Error; Recommender System; Root Mean Square Error; User Study

Recommender systems are now popular both commercially and in the research community, where many approaches have been suggested for providing recommendations. In many cases a system designer that wishes to employ a recommendater system must choose between a set of candidate approaches. A first step t...