New Ideas in Ranking for Personalized Fashion Recommender Systems

Abstract

Fashion is an area that is in constant growth. The proliferation of social media and the Web, in general, has made e-shopping, thus corresponding recommender systems, increasingly important. Fashion recommender systems is a related area that we focus on in this chapter. More specifically, we present how recommender systems are used in online fashion stores to enhance the user experience and increase sales. In addition, we look at challenges the fashion domain specifically faces. We exemplify solution strategies by considering the SoBazaar system, including showing how we built a recommendation approach for the system and discussing results from our experiments. The results from these experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and viability of our method.