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Recommender engines have become an integral component in today's e-commerce systems. From recommending books in Amazon to finding friends in social networks such as Facebook, they have become omnipresent. Generally, recommender systems can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Laknath Semage

Recommender systems have become an integral part of our daily online experience by analyzing past user behavior to suggest relevant content in entertainment domains such as music, movies, and books. Today, they are among the most widely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Dominik Kowald

Online communities, like Wikipedia, produce valuable public information goods. Whereas some of these communities require would-be contributors to create accounts, many do not. Does this requirement catalyze cooperation or inhibit…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Benjamin Mako Hill , Aaron Shaw

Recommender systems are typically designed to fulfill end user needs. However, in some domains the users are not the only stakeholders in the system. For instance, in a news aggregator website users, authors, magazines as well as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Alireza Gharahighehi , Celine Vens , Konstantinos Pliakos

Wikipedia articles about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and intelligent technologies. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Isaac Johnson , Allen Yilun Lin , Toby Jia-Jun Li , Andrew Hall , Aaron Halfaker , Johannes Schöning , Brent Hecht

As a pivotal tool to alleviate the information overload problem, recommender systems aim to predict user's preferred items from millions of candidates by analyzing observed user-item relations. As for alleviating the sparsity and cold start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yue Deng

Recommender systems are a vital tool that helps us to overcome the information overload problem. They are being used by most e-commerce web sites and attract the interest of a broad scientific community. A recommender system uses data on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Fei Yu , An Zeng , Sebastien Gillard , Matus Medo

Wikipedia, an open collaborative website, can be edited by anyone, even anonymously, thus becoming victim to ill-intentioned changes. Therefore, ranking Wikipedia authors by calculating impact measures based on the edit history can help to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Sebastian Neef

We present a content-based method for recommending citations in an academic paper draft. We embed a given query document into a vector space, then use its nearest neighbors as candidates, and rerank the candidates using a discriminative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Chandra Bhagavatula , Sergey Feldman , Russell Power , Waleed Ammar

Wikipedia is among the largest examples of collective intelligence on the Web with over 61 million articles covering over 320 languages. Although edited and maintained by an active workforce of human volunteers, Wikipedia is highly reliant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Neal Reeves , Elena Simperl

Recommender systems have become an essential tool to help resolve the information overload problem in recent decades. Traditional recommender systems, however, suffer from data sparsity and cold start problems. To address these issues, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zhu Sun , Qing Guo , Jie Yang , Hui Fang , Guibing Guo , Jie Zhang , Robin Burke

In recent years, critics of online platforms have raised concerns about the ability of recommendation algorithms to amplify problematic content, with potentially radicalizing consequences. However, attempts to evaluate the effect of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Homa Hosseinmardi , Amir Ghasemian , Miguel Rivera-Lanas , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Robert West , Duncan J. Watts

Recommender systems have generated tremendous value for both users and businesses, drawing significant attention from academia and industry alike. However, due to practical constraints, academic research remains largely confined to offline…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kuan Zou , Aixin Sun

The paper describes a potential platform to facilitate academic peer review with emphasis on early-stage research. This platform aims to make peer review more accurate and timely by rewarding reviewers on the basis of peer prediction…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Alexander Ugarov

In the WWW (World Wide Web), dynamic development and spread of data has resulted a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet, yet user is unable to find relevant information in a short span of time. Consequently, a system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Denis Selimi , Krenare Pireva Nuci

Recommender Systems (RS) often suffer from popularity bias, where a small set of popular items dominate the recommendation results due to their high interaction rates, leaving many less popular items overlooked. This phenomenon…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Juno Prent , Masoud Mansoury

Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems grew out of information retrieval and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Saverio Perugini , Marcos Andre Goncalves , Edward A. Fox

With over 500 million tweets posted per day, in Twitter, it is difficult for Twitter users to discover interesting content from the deluge of uninteresting posts. In this work, we present a novel, explainable, topical recommendation system,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Parantapa Bhattacharya , Saptarshi Ghosh , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Soumya K. Ghosh , Niloy Ganguly

Social media plays a crucial role in shaping society, often amplifying polarization and spreading misinformation. These effects stem from complex dynamics involving user interactions, individual traits, and recommender algorithms driving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Sabrina Guidotti , Sabrina Patania , Giuseppe Vizzari , Dimitri Ognibene , Gregor Donabauer , Udo Kruschwitz , Davide Taibi

Literature recommendation systems (LRS) assist readers in the discovery of relevant content from the overwhelming amount of literature available. Despite the widespread adoption of LRS, there is a lack of research on the user-perceived…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Malte Ostendorff , Corinna Breitinger , Bela Gipp