A Multi-Dimensional Paper Recommender

  • Authors:
  • Tiffany Y. Tang;Gordon McCalla

  • Affiliations:
  • ARIES Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, {yat751, mccalla}@cs.usask.ca and Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, cstiffany@com ...;ARIES Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, {yat751, mccalla}@cs.usask.ca

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In our previous work [9, 10], we highlighted the importance of incorporating learners' pedagogical features in making paper recommendations and proposed the pedagogical-oriented paper recommender. In this paper, we report our studies in designing and evaluating a six-dimensional paper recommender. Experimental results from a human subject study of learner preferences suggest that in the e-learning domain where there are not enough papers as well as learners to start up the recommender system (RS), it is imperative to inject other factors such as the overall popularity of each paper, learner knowledge background, etc., although these factors are less important for making recommendations on movies, books, CDs.