Reciprocal Recommenders
Definition
Anything where people are both subjects and objects of the recommendation.
Ex. Job recommendation, mentor-mentee matching, online dating.
Differences between typical and reciprocal recommenders
Related Work
RECON's Algorithm (2010)
For online dating applications.
- Preference model for users (by recording attributes of all users that a specific user X sent a message to, and all users whose messages were positively replied to by X). - Calculation of compatibility scores based on similarity of preferences.
Job Recommendation
In JR, we only have one direction: user -> job. Asymmetry.