L'exploitation de données contextuelles pour la recommandation d'hôtels
Abstract
In recent years, recommender systems have witnessed an increased interest from industry
and academia. The deployment of such systems in the hotel industry needs to satisfy specific
constraints, making the direct application of classical approaches insufficient. There is an
inherent complexity to the problem, starting from the decision-making process for selecting
accommodations, which is sharply different from the one for acquiring tangible goods, to
the multifaceted behavior of travelers, often selecting accommodations based on contextual
factors. Travelers recurrently fall into the cold-start status due to the volatility of interests and
the change in attitudes depending on the context. In this paper, we propose a context-aware
recommender system for hotel recommendation. The system is based on two novel approaches
that take into account geography, temporality, and the trips' intent. Our experiments on a realworld
dataset show the impact of taking into account contextual data in improving the quality
of the recommendation.