Lit@EVE: Explainable Recommendation based on Wikipedia Concept Vectors

Abstract

We present an explainable recommendation system for novels and authors,called Lit@EVE, which is based on Wikipedia concept vectors. In this system,each novel or author is treated as a concept whose definition is extractedas a concept vector through the application of an explainable word embeddingtechnique called EVE. Each dimension of the concept vector is labelled as eithera Wikipedia article or a Wikipedia category name, making the vector representationreadily interpretable. In order to recommend items, the Lit@EVE systemuses these vectors to compute similarity scores between a target novel or authorand all other candidate items. Finally, the system generates an ordered list of suggesteditems by showing the most informative features as human-readable labels,thereby making the recommendation explainable.