DualGCN: An Aspect-Aware Dual Graph Convolutional Network for review-based recommender

Recently, a variety of review-based recommendation systems that incorporate the valuable information extracted from user-generated textual reviews into user and item modeling have been proposed. However, the existing recommendations normally model reviews at the sentence level. They ignore the modeling of aspect words in reviews, which fails to capture user preferences and item attributes in a fine-grained way. In addition, few studies consider constructing user–item interaction based on review information extracted from the aspect level. In this paper, we are motivated to propose an Aspect-Aware Dual Graph Convolutional Network (DualGCN). Specifically, we first design an Aspect-GCN layer to model the message diffusion of an aspect graph constructed from reviews, capturing the overall description of an aspect in all reviews. We then propose a UI-GCN layer to model a user’s fine-grained preferences toward interacted items at the aspect level. Finally, we adopt a Factorization Machine model to accomplish the recommendation task. The experimental results demonstrate that our model significantly outperforms the related approaches w.r.t. the accuracy of both rating prediction and top-K ranking on Amazon and Yelp datasets.