A hybrid recommender system for the mining of consumer preferences from their reviews

Product review sites are widespread on the Internet and are rapidly gaining in popularity among consumers. This already large volume of user-generated content is dramatically growing every day, making it hard for consumers to filter out the worthwhile information which appears on the various review sites. There commendation system plays a significant role in solving the problem of information overload. This study proposes a framework which integrates a collaborative filtering approach and an opinion mining technique for movie recommendation. Within the proposed framework, sentiment analysis is first applied to the users' reviews to detect consumer opinions about the movie they have watched and to explore the individual's preference profile. Traditional recommendation models are overly dependent on preference ratings and often suffer from the problem of 'data sparsity'. Experimental results obtained from real online reviews show that our proposed method is effective in dealing with insufficient data and is more accurate and efficient than existing traditional methods.