... modeling pro-vides a formal and convenient way of grouping documents and words to topics. In order to apply topic models to our problem, we map RASCs to documents, items to words, and treat the output ... significantly fewer “documents”, “words”, and “topics”. To further improve efficiency, we also perform preprocess-ing (refer to Section 3.4 for details) before build-ing topic models for CR(q), ... a and the query item q, and sim(a,C) is the similarity between a and C, calcu-lated as, , =(, ) (3.4) Item similarity calculation: Formulas 3.2, 3.3, and...