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Recommender Systems
Exploring the Landscape of Recommender Systems Evaluation: Practices and Perspectives
Recommender systems research and practice are fast-developing topics with growing adoption in a wide variety of information access …
Christine Bauer
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Eva Zangerle
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Alan Said
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Third Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES 2023)
Evaluation is important when developing and deploying recommender systems. The PERSPECTIVES workshop sheds light on the different, …
Alan Said
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Eva Zangerle
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Christine Bauer
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Reality Check – Conducting Real World Studies: Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation fortextlessbr/textgreaterResearch and Education
Information retrieval and recommender systems are deployed in real world environments. Therefore, to get a real feeling for the system, …
Bruce Ferwerda
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Allan Hanbury
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Bart P. Knijnenburg
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Birger Larsen
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Lien Michiels
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Andrea Papenmeier
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Alan Said
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Philipp Schaer
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Martijn Willemsen
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Research directions in recommender systems for health and well-being
Recommender systems have been put to use in the entertainment and e-commerce domains for decades, and in these decades, recommender …
Hanna Hauptmann
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Alan Said
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Christoph Trattner
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Second Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES 2022)
Evaluation of recommender systems is a central activity when developing recommender systems, both in industry and academia. The second …
Eva Zangerle
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Christine Bauer
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Alan Said
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Improving accountability in recommender systems research through reproducibility
Reproducibility is a key requirement for scientific progress. It allows the reproduction of the works of others, and, as a consequence, …
Alejandro Bellogín
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Alan Said
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Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems (PERSPECTIVES)
Evaluation is a cornerstone in the process of developing and deploying recommender systems. The PERSPECTIVES workshop brought together …
Eva Zangerle
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Christine Bauer
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Alan Said
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Fifth International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems (HealthRecSys 2020)
HealthRecSys 2020 was the 5th International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems held in conjunction with the 14th ACM Conference on …
Alan Said
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H. Schäfer
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H. Torkamaan
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C. Trattner
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Fourth international workshop on health recommender systems (HealthRecSys 2019)
HealthRecSys 2019 was the 4th International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems held in conjunction with the 2019 ACM Conference on …
D. Elsweiler
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H. Schäfer
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B. Ludwig
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H. Torkamaan
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Alan Said
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C. Trattner
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Third international workshop on health recommender systems (healthrecsys 2018)
The 3rd International Workshop on Health Recommender Systems was held in conjunction with the 2018 ACM Conference on Recommender …
David Elsweiler
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Bernd Ludwig
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Alan Said
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Hanna Schäfer
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Helma Torkamaan
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Christoph Trattner
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Coherence and inconsistencies in rating behavior: estimating the magic barrier type: publication profile: false of recommender systems
Recommender Systems have to deal with a wide variety of users and user types that express their preferences in different ways. This …
Alan Said
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A. Bellogín
Jan 1, 2018
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Second workshop on health recommender systems (HealthRecSys 2017)
The 2017 Workshop on Health Recommender Systems was held in conjunction with the 2017 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems in Como, …
D. Elsweiler
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S. Hors-Fraile
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B. Ludwig
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Alan Said
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H. Schäfer
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C. Trattner
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H. Torkamaan
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A.C. Valdez
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Introduction to the Special Issue on Recommender System Benchmarking
Recommender systems addvalue to vast content resources by matching users with items of interest. In recent years, immense progress has …
Paolo Cremonesi
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Alan Said
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Domonkos Tikk
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Michelle X. Zhou
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Engendering health with recommender systems: Workshop abstract
The first Workshop on Engendering Health with Recom- mender Systems was organized in conjunction with ACM RecSys 2016. The focus of the …
D. Elsweiler
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B. Ludwig
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Alan Said
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H. Schäfer
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C. Trattner
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Benchmarking
This chapter describes the concepts involved in the process of benchmarking of recommendation systems. Benchmarking of recommendation …
Alan Said
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Domonkos Tikk
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Paolo Cremonesi
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Do recommendations matter? News recommendation in real life
We present a study of how recommendations are received in real life by users across different news domains (traditional online …
Alan Said
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A. Bellogín
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J. Lin
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A. De Vries
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Recommender systems challenge 2014
The 2014 ACM Recommender Systems Challenge invited re- searchers and practitioners to work towards a common goal, this goal being the …
Alan Said
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S. Dooms
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B. Loni
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D. Tikk
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RiVal - A toolkit to foster reproducibility in recommender system evaluation
Currently, it is diffcult to put in context and compare the results from a given evaluation of a recommender system, mainly because too …
Alan Said
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A. Bellogín
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WrapRec: An easy extension of recommender system libraries
WrapRec is an easy-to-use Recommender Systems toolkit which allows users to easily implement or wrap recommen- dation algorithms from …
B. Loni
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Alan Said
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A month in the life of a production news recommender system
During the last decade, recommender systems have become a ubiquitous feature in the online world. Research on systems and algorithms in …
Alan Said
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Jimmy Lin
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Alejandro Bellogín
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Arjen De Vries
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Workshop on benchmarking adaptive retrieval and recommender systems
Evaluating adaptive and personalized information retrieval tech-niques is known to be a difficult endeavor. The rapid evolution of …
Pablo Castells
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Frank Hopfgartner
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Alan Said
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Mounia Lalmas
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User-centric evaluation of a K-furthest neighbor collaborative filtering recommender
Collaborative filtering recommender systems often use nearest neighbor methods to identify candidate items. In this paper we present an …
Alan Said
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Ben Fields
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Brijnesh J. Jain
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Sahin Albayrak
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3rd Workshop on context-awareness in retrieval and recommendation
Context-aware information is widely available in various ways and is becoming more and more important for enhancing retrieval …
M. Böhmer
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E.W. De Luca
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Alan Said
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J. Teevan
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A 3D approach to recommender system evaluation
In this work we describe an approach at multi-objective recommender system evaluation based on a previously introduced 3D benchmarking …
Alan Said
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S. Albayrak
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B.J. Jain
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Information retrieval and user-centric recommender system evaluation
Traditional recommender system evaluation focuses on raising the accuracy, or lowering the rating prediction error of the …
Alan Said
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A. Bellogín
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A. De Vries
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B. Kille
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Introduction to special section on CAMRa2010: Movie recommendation in context
The challenge and workshop on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa2010) were conducted jointly in 2010 with the Recommender …
Alan Said
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S. Berkovsky
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E.W. De Luca
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News Recommendation in the Wild: CWI's Recommendation Algorithms in the NRS type: publication profile: false Challenge
This work presents the recommendation algorithms deployed by the winning team (recomenders.net) in the ACM RecSys 2013 News Recommender …
Alan Said
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Alejandro Bellogín
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Arjen De Vries
Jan 1, 2013
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Analyzing weighting schemes in collaborative filtering: Cold start, post cold type: publication profile: false start and power users
Collaborative filtering recommender systems provide their users with relevant items based on information from other similar users. …
Alan Said
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B.J. Jain
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S. Albayrak
Jan 1, 2012
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Correlating perception-oriented aspects in user-centric recommender system
Research on recommender systems evaluation generally measures the quality of the algorithm, or system, offline, i.e. based on some …
Alan Said
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B.J. Jain
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A. Lommatzsch
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S. Albayrak
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Estimating the magic barrier of recommender systems: A user study
Recommender systems are commonly evaluated by trying to predict known, withheld, ratings for a set of users. Measures such as the …
Alan Said
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B.J. Jain
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S. Narr
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T. Plumbaum
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S. Albayrak
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C. Scheel
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KMulE: A framework for user-based comparison of recommender algorithms
Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems come in a wide variety of variants. In this paper we present a system for visualizing and …
Alan Said
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E.W. De Luca
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B. Kille
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B. Jain
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I. Micus
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S. Albayrak
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Recommender systems challenge 2012
The Recommender System Challenge 2012 invited participants to work on two tracks with real-world datasets and to submit their …
N. Manouselis
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J. Hermanns
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Alan Said
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B. Kille
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D. Tikk
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H. Drachsler
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K. Verbert
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K. Jack
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Users and noise: The magic barrier of recommender systems
Recommender systems are crucial components of most commercial web sites to keep users satisfied and to increase revenue. Thus, a lot of …
Alan Said
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B.J. Jain
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S. Narr
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T. Plumbaum
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Challenge on context-aware movie recommendation
This paper provides an overview of CAMRa2011, the second edition of the Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation. The challenge …
Alan Said
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Shlomo Berkovsky
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Ernesto William De Luca
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Jannis Hermanns
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Inferring Contextual User Profiles - Improving Recommender Performance
In this paper we present the concept of inferred contextual user profiles (CUPs) which extends the traditional user profile definition …
Alan Said
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Ernesto W. De Luca
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Sahin Albayrak
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Group recommendation in context
The 2011 Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa2011) was held in conjunction with the Fifth ACM Conference on …
Alan Said
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S. Berkovsky
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E.W. De Luca
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Context-awareness in recommender systems
CARS and CAMRa were organized under the Context-awareness in Recommendation Systems special event and gathered academic researchers as …
Gediminas Adomavicius
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Alexander Tuzhilin
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Shlomo Berkovsky
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Ernesto W. De Luca
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Alan Said
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Identifying and utilizing contextual data in hybrid recommender systems
Context-aware recommender systems are becoming a popular topic, still, there are many untouched aspects. In this paper, research …
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Putting things in context
The Challenge on Context-Aware Movie Recommendation (CAMRa) was conducted as part of a join event on Context-Awareness in Recommender …
Alan Said
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Shlomo Berkovsky
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Ernesto W. De Luca
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