CONCLUSION & FUTURE WORK Given a new user with an information gathering task consisting of document IDs and respective term vectors, this can be compared in the semantic space with the inferred task clusters of the community. In order to find the task clusters closely associated with the new task, the task similarity objective function is used with calculating the average task similarity per each cluster and finding the Top N clusters with the highest average task similarity. Acknowledgements : This research is supported by NSF grant CNS: A Task-based Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Recommender Service Sampath Jayarathna and Frank Shipman Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University – College Station CNS: A Task-based Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Recommender Service Sampath Jayarathna and Frank Shipman Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University – College Station ABSTRACT we propose a task-based hybrid collaborative filtering (CF) recommender service to support user’s information gathering tasks. Even with the best Web Search Engines (WSEs), and the most effective query formulations, information gathering tasks require people to work through long list of documents to determine potentially relevant documents. We propose and implement SVD based LSI to find similarity in information gathering tasks to find task clusters and use these clusters for recommendations. Our method alleviates major challenges in a traditional CF such as data scalability, synonymy and privacy protection (using interest profiles via web service). The use of hybrid CF technique in CNS overcomes CF problems such as sparsity and gray sheep. Figure 1. Community Navigation Service Overview People in their everyday life rely on recommendations from others in the community for things like reference letters, news, movies, songs, and travel so forth. Collaborative Filtering uses the known preferences of a group of users to make recommendations or predictions of the unknown preferences for the other users. The aim of this proposed work is to investigate this similar behavior in performing everyday information gathering tasks by taking into consideration similar tasks of community of recommenders. COMMUNITY NAVIGATION During information task, useful documents may be long, and cover multiple subtopics; users may read some segments and ignore others. In order to record which portion(s) of the document pique the user’s interests, an explicit interest expressions (e.g. annotations using WebAnnotate) capturing tool is used. The derived User Interest Profile consists of a unique task ID, documents IDs (URLs) and the respective term vectors (user annotations).The IPM acts as a local interest profile server where it collects information from Reading Application (annotation enabled browser) and this information is aggregated and saved in the user’s interest profile and broadcasts it to the participating applications. Figure 2. CNS Web Service Architecture Each atomic task in the interest profile consists of set of documents related to the information gathering task and their respective term vectors. Our goal is to create a N*N task similarity matrix given a set of N tasks to be clustered. The SVD based Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) can take a large matrix of term document association data and construct a semantic space where terms and documents that are closely associated can be detected with Cosine Similarity. where, i=1,2…..m, j=1,2…..n REFERENCES TASK-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS Our major contributions in this work can be summarized as: (1)A novel task-based recommender service based on traditional hybrid CF techniques; (2)We adapted the LSI in task similarity context which is the recommendations based on user’s behavior in doing a particular information gathering task; (3)We proposed an innovative task clusters in which we represented the task data in a k-dimensional semantic space in order to make recommendations based on task similarity objective function. 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