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Recommender systems are a valuable way to engage users in a system, increase participation and show them resources they may not have found otherwise. One significant challenge is that user interests may change over time and certain items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Oznur Alkan , Elizabeth Daly

Artificial intelligence systems increasingly generate text intended to provide social and emotional support. Understanding how users perceive empathic qualities in such content is therefore critical. We examined differences in perceived…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jonas Festor , Ivo Snels , Bennett Kleinberg

A consumer-dependent (business-to-consumer) organization tends to present itself as possessing a set of human qualities, which is termed as the brand personality of the company. The perception is impressed upon the consumer through the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Soumyadeep Roy , Shamik Sural , Niyati Chhaya , Anandhavelu Natarajan , Niloy Ganguly

Generative models, such as large language models and text-to-image diffusion models, are increasingly used to create visual designs like user interfaces (UIs) and presentation slides. Finetuning and benchmarking these generative models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yi-Hao Peng , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Jason Wu

The growing reliance on online services underscores the crucial role of recommendation systems, especially on social media platforms seeking increased user engagement. This study investigates how recommendation systems influence the impact…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sriniwas Pandey , Hiroki Sayama

Psychological models are increasingly being used to explain online behavioral traces. Aside from the commonly used personality traits as a general user model, more domain dependent models are gaining attention. The use of domain dependent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Bruce Ferwerda , Mark Graus

The wide use of social media sites and other digital technologies have resulted in an unprecedented availability of digital data that are being used to study human behavior across research domains. Although unsolicited opinions and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Nina Cesare , Christan Grant , Quynh Nguyen , Hedwig Lee , Elaine O. Nsoesie

In general, recommender systems are designed to provide personalized items to a user. But in few cases, items are recommended for a group, and the challenge is to aggregate the individual user preferences to infer the recommendation to a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Chintoo Kumar , C. Ravindranath Chowdary

Most of the existing recommender systems use the ratings provided by users on individual items. An additional source of preference information is to use the ratings that users provide on sets of items. The advantages of using preferences on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohit Sharma , F. Maxwell Harper , George Karypis

The primary aim of market segmentation is to identify relevant groups of consumers that can be addressed efficiently by marketing or advertising campaigns. This paper addresses the issue whether consumer groups can be identified from…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-05 Daniel Müllensiefen , Christian Hennig , Hedie Howells

Online services routinely mine user data to predict user preferences, make recommendations, and place targeted ads. Recent research has demonstrated that several private user attributes (such as political affiliation, sexual orientation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Stratis Ioannidis , Andrea Montanari , Udi Weinsberg , Smriti Bhagat , Nadia Fawaz , Nina Taft

Social media presents an opportunity for people to share content that they find to be significant, funny, or notable. No single piece of content will appeal to all users, but are there systematic variations between users that can help us…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Nathan O. Hodas , Ryan Butner , Court Corley

Comprehending characters' personalities is a crucial aspect of story reading. As readers engage with a story, their understanding of a character evolves based on new events and information; and multiple fine-grained aspects of personalities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mo Yu , Jiangnan Li , Shunyu Yao , Wenjie Pang , Xiaochen Zhou , Zhou Xiao , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Many researchers have used tag information to improve the performance of recommendation techniques in recommender systems. Examining the tags of users will help to get their interests and leads to more accuracy in the recommendations. Since…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Zeinab Shokrzadeh , Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Mohammad-Ali Balafar , Jamshid Bagherzadeh-Mohasefi

With the overwhelming online products available in recent years, there is an increasing need to filter and deliver relevant personalized advice for users. Recommender systems solve this problem by modeling and predicting individual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-11 Antonia Godoy-Lorite , Roger Guimera , Marta Sales-Pardo

The growth of online Digital/social media has allowed a variety of ideas and opinions to coexist. Social Media has appealed users due to the ease of fast dissemination of information at low cost and easy access. However, due to the growth…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Dipto Barman , Owen Conlan

Probabilistic models can learn users' preferences from the history of their item adoptions on a social media site, and in turn, recommend new items to users based on learned preferences. However, current models ignore psychological factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Jeon-Hyung Kang , Kristina Lerman

Recommendation systems increasingly depend on massive human-labeled datasets; however, the human annotators hired to generate these labels increasingly come from homogeneous backgrounds. This poses an issue when downstream predictive models…

The activities we do are linked to our interests, personality, political preferences, and decisions we make about the future. In this paper, we explore the task of predicting human activities from user-generated content. We collect a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Steven R. Wilson , Rada Mihalcea

With ever-increasing amounts of online information available, modeling and predicting individual preferences-for books or articles, for example-is becoming more and more important. Good predictions enable us to improve advice to users, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Antonia Godoy-Lorite , Roger Guimera , Cristopher Moore , Marta Sales-Pardo