Movie Recommendation System

EasyChair Preprint 1950

Abstract

A recommendation engine filters the data using different algorithms and recommends the most relevant items to users. It first captures the past behavior of a customer and based on that, recommends products which the users might be likely to buy. If a completely new user visits an e-commerce site, that site will not have any past history of that user. So how does the site go about recommending products to the user in such a scenario? One possible solution could be to recommend the best selling products, i.e. the products which are high in demand. Another possible solution could be to recommend the products which would bring the maximum profit to the business. Three main approaches are used for our recommender systems. One is Demographic Filtering i.e They offer generalized recommendations to every user, based on movie popularity and/or genre. The System recommends the same movies to users with similar demographic features. Since each user is different , this approach is considered to be too simple. The basic idea behind this system is that movies that are more popular and critically acclaimed will have a higher probability of being liked by the average audience. Second is content-based filtering, where we try to profile the users interests using information collected, and recommend items based on that profile. The other is collaborative filtering, where we try to group similar users together and use information about the group to make recommendations to the user.

Keyphrases: Collaborating Based Filtering, Demographic Filtering, content-based filtering

@booklet{EasyChair:1950,
  author    = {Mohit Soni and Shivam Bansal},
  title     = {Movie Recommendation System},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 1950},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2019}}