Scrutinizing Mobile App Recommendation: Identifying Important App-Related Indicators

Abstract

Among several traditional and novel mobile app recommender techniques that utilize a diverse set of app-related features (such as an app’s Twitter followers, various version instances, etc.), which app-related features are the most important indicators for app recommendation? In this paper, we develop a hybrid app recommender framework that integrates a variety of app-related features and recommendation techniques, and then identify the most important indicators for the app recommendation task. Our results reveal an interesting correlation with data from third-party app analytics companies; and suggest that, in the context of mobile app recommendation, more focus could be placed in user and trend analysis via social networks.

Publication
Information Retrieval Technology: 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2016, Beijing, China, November 30 – December 2, 2016, Proceedings
Kazunari Sugiyama
Postdoctoral Alumnus

WING alumni; former postdoc

Min-Yen Kan
Min-Yen Kan
Associate Professor

WING lead; interests include Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.