Enhancing Explainable Rating Prediction through Annotated Macro Concepts
Huachi Zhou, Shuang Zhou, Hao Chen, Ninghao Liu, Fan Yang, Xiao Huang
Abstract
Generating recommendation reasons for recommendation results is a long-standing problem because it is challenging to explain the underlying reasons for recommending an item based on user and item IDs. Existing models usually learn semantic embeddings for each user and item, and generate the reasons according to the embeddings of the user-item pair. However, user and item IDs do not carry inherent semantic meaning, thus the limited number of reviews cannot model users’ preferences and item characteristics effectively, negatively affecting the model generalization for unseen user-item pairs.To tackle the problem, we propose the Concept Enhanced Explainable Recommendation framework (CEER), which utilizes macro concepts as the intermediary to bridge the gap between the user/item embeddings and the recommendation reasons. Specifically, we maximize the information bottleneck to extract macro concepts from user-item reviews. Then, for recommended user-item pairs, we jointly train the concept embeddings with the user and item embeddings, and generate the explanation according to the concepts. Extensive experiments on three datasets verify the superiority of our CEER model.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.acl-long.631
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Editors:
- Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 11736–11748
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.631
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Huachi Zhou, Shuang Zhou, Hao Chen, Ninghao Liu, Fan Yang, and Xiao Huang. 2024. Enhancing Explainable Rating Prediction through Annotated Macro Concepts. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 11736–11748, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Enhancing Explainable Rating Prediction through Annotated Macro Concepts (Zhou et al., ACL 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.acl-long.631.pdf