Review-based Recommender Systems: A Survey of Approaches, Challenges and Future Perspectives

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Main Authors: Hasan, Emrul, Rahman, Mizanur, Ding, Chen, Huang, Jimmy Xiangji, Raza, Shaina
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author Hasan, Emrul
Rahman, Mizanur
Ding, Chen
Huang, Jimmy Xiangji
Raza, Shaina
author_facet Hasan, Emrul
Rahman, Mizanur
Ding, Chen
Huang, Jimmy Xiangji
Raza, Shaina
contents Recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users navigate an overwhelming selection of products and services. On online platforms, users have the opportunity to share feedback in various modes, including numerical ratings, textual reviews, and likes/dislikes. Traditional recommendation systems rely on users explicit ratings or implicit interactions (e.g. likes, clicks, shares, saves) to learn user preferences and item characteristics. Beyond these numerical ratings, textual reviews provide insights into users fine-grained preferences and item features. Analyzing these reviews is crucial for enhancing the performance and interpretability of personalized recommendation results. In recent years, review-based recommender systems have emerged as a significant sub-field in this domain. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of the developments in review-based recommender systems over recent years, highlighting the importance of reviews in recommender systems, as well as the challenges associated with extracting features from reviews and integrating them into ratings. Specifically, we present a categorization of these systems and summarize the state-of-the-art methods, analyzing their unique features, effectiveness, and limitations. Finally, we propose potential directions for future research, including the integration of multimodal data, multi-criteria rating information, and ethical considerations.
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spellingShingle Review-based Recommender Systems: A Survey of Approaches, Challenges and Future Perspectives
Hasan, Emrul
Rahman, Mizanur
Ding, Chen
Huang, Jimmy Xiangji
Raza, Shaina
Information Retrieval
Recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users navigate an overwhelming selection of products and services. On online platforms, users have the opportunity to share feedback in various modes, including numerical ratings, textual reviews, and likes/dislikes. Traditional recommendation systems rely on users explicit ratings or implicit interactions (e.g. likes, clicks, shares, saves) to learn user preferences and item characteristics. Beyond these numerical ratings, textual reviews provide insights into users fine-grained preferences and item features. Analyzing these reviews is crucial for enhancing the performance and interpretability of personalized recommendation results. In recent years, review-based recommender systems have emerged as a significant sub-field in this domain. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of the developments in review-based recommender systems over recent years, highlighting the importance of reviews in recommender systems, as well as the challenges associated with extracting features from reviews and integrating them into ratings. Specifically, we present a categorization of these systems and summarize the state-of-the-art methods, analyzing their unique features, effectiveness, and limitations. Finally, we propose potential directions for future research, including the integration of multimodal data, multi-criteria rating information, and ethical considerations.
title Review-based Recommender Systems: A Survey of Approaches, Challenges and Future Perspectives
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05562