Graph Embedding-Based Point-Of-Interest Recommendation Considering Weather Features

Kun Woo Lee, Jongseon Kim, Yon Dohn Chung

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2022.49.3.221

As the Location-Based Services (LBS) grow rapidly, the Point-Of-Interest (POI) recommendation becomes an active research area to provide users appropriate information relevant to their locations. Recently, translation-based recommendation systems using graph embedding, such as TransRec, are attracting great attention. In this paper, we discovered some drawbacks of TransRec; it is limited in expressing the complex relationship between users and POIs, and the relation embedding is fixed without considering weather features. We propose WAPTRec, a graph embedding-based POI recommendation method considering the weather, that overcomes the drawback of TransRec. WAPTRec can rep resent the same POI embedding in different ways according to users by using a category projection matrix and attention mechanism. In addition, it provides better recommendation accuracy by utilizing the users’ movement history, category of POIs and weather features. Experiments using public datasets illustrated that WAPTRec outperformed the conventional translation-based recommendation methods.