Document Recommendations and Feedback Collection Analysis within the Slovenian Open-Access Infrastructure

Abstract

This paper presents a hybrid document recommender system intended for use in digital libraries and institutional repositories that are part of the Slovenian Open Access Infrastructure. The recommender system provides recommendations of similar documents across different digital libraries and institutional repositories with the aim to connect researchers and improve collaboration efforts. The hybrid recommender system makes use of document processing techniques, document metadata, and the similarity ranking function BM25 to provide content-based recommendations as a primary method. It also uses collaborative-filtering methods as a secondary method in a cascade hybrid recommendation technique. We also provide a real-world data feedback collection analysis for our hybrid recommender system on an academic digital repository in order to be able to identify suitable time-frames for direct feedback collection during the year.

Keywords

• hybrid recommender systems
• feedback collection
• digital libraries
• information retrieval
• real-world data
• open-access