Authorship Identification for Literary Book Recommendations

Haifa Alharthi, Diana Inkpen, Stan Szpakowicz


Abstract
Book recommender systems can help promote the practice of reading for pleasure, which has been declining in recent years. One factor that influences reading preferences is writing style. We propose a system that recommends books after learning their authors’ style. To our knowledge, this is the first work that applies the information learned by an author-identification model to book recommendations. We evaluated the system according to a top-k recommendation scenario. Our system gives better accuracy when compared with many state-of-the-art methods. We also conducted a qualitative analysis by checking if similar books/authors were annotated similarly by experts.
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C18-1033
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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390–400
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https://aclanthology.org/C18-1033
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Haifa Alharthi, Diana Inkpen, and Stan Szpakowicz. 2018. Authorship Identification for Literary Book Recommendations. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 390–400, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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