Title
You Are What You Eat: Learning User Tastes for Rating Prediction
Abstract
Poor nutrition is one of the major causes of ill-health and death in the western world and is caused by a variety of factors including lack of nutritional understanding and preponderance towards eating convenience foods. We wish to build systems which can recommend nutritious meal plans to users, however a crucial pre-requisite is to be able to recommend recipes that people will like. In this work we investigate key factors contributing to how recipes are rated by analysing the results of a longitudinal study (n=124) in order to understand how best to approach the recommendation problem. We identify a number of important contextual factors which can influence the choice of rating. Based on this analysis, we construct several recipe recommendation models that are able to leverage understanding of user's likes and dislikes in terms of ingredients and combinations of ingredients and in terms of nutritional content. Via experiment over our dataset we are able to show that these models can significantly outperform a number of competitive baselines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-319-02432-5_19
SPIRE
Field
DocType
Volume
Recommender system,Longitudinal study,World Wide Web,Leverage (finance),Information retrieval,Computer science,Mean absolute error,Poor nutrition,Recipe,Convenience food,Marketing
Conference
8214
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
21
1.61
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Morgan Harvey130923.92
bernd ludwig243642.67
David Elsweiler341640.65