recommendation systems and the cold start problem

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Published on 2010-01-02T19:11:22Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 22:20 UTC
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Hello, I am curious what are the methods / approaches to overcome the "cold start" problem where when a new user or an item enters the system, due to lack of info about this new entity, making recommendation is a problem.

I can think of doing some prediction based recommendation (like gender, nationality and so on).

Thanks

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