Workshop and challenge on news recommender systems

  • Authors:
  • Mozhgan Tavakolifard;Jon Atle Gulla;Kevin C. Almeroth;Frank Hopfgartner;Benjamin Kille;Till Plumbaum;Andreas Lommatzsch;Torben Brodt;Arthur Bucko;Tobias Heintz

  • Affiliations:
  • Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Trondheim, Norway;University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA;Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany;plista GmbH, Berlin, Germany;plista GmbH, Berlin, Germany;plista GmbH, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Recommending news articles entails additional requirements to recommender systems. Such requirements include special consumption patterns, fluctuating itemcollections, and highly sparse user profiles. This workshop (NRS'13@RecSys) brought together researchers and practitioners around the topics of designing and evaluating novel news recommender systems. Additionally, we offered a challenge allowing participants to evaluate their recommendation algorithms with actual user feedback.