Viewpoint diversity in search results

T Draws, N Roy, O Inel, A Rieger, R Hada… - … on Information Retrieval, 2023 - Springer
Adverse phenomena such as the search engine manipulation effect (SEME), where web
search users change their attitude on a topic following whatever most highly-ranked search …

How Should We Measure Filter Bubbles? A Regression Model and Evidence for Online News

L Michiels, J Vannieuwenhuyze, J Leysen… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
News media play an important role in democratic societies. Central to fulfilling this role is the
premise that users should be exposed to diverse news. However, news recommender …

Bootstrapped personalized popularity for cold start recommender systems

I Chaimalas, DM Walker, E Gruppi, BR Clark… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender Systems are severely hampered by the well-known Cold Start problem,
identified by the lack of information on new items and users. This has led to research efforts …

It ain't easy: using normatively motivated news diversification to facilitate policy support, tolerance, and political participation

N Mattis, PK Masur, J Moeller… - Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Proponents of 'democratic news recommender design'argue that algorithmic news
diversification may facilitate democratic participation. However, while various news …

Radio*–an introduction to measuring normative diversity in news recommendations

S Vrijenhoek, G Bénédict… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In traditional recommender system literature, diversity is often seen as the opposite of
similarity and typically defined as the distance between identified topics, categories, or word …

Recommendations for the recommenders: Reflections on prioritizing diversity in the recsys challenge

L Heitz, S Vrijenhoek, O Inel - Proceedings of the Recommender …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The RecSys Challenge 2024, co-organized by the Danish news outlet Ekstra Bladet, called
for participants to develop a news recommender system that accurately predicts which news …

Normalize: The first workshop on normative design and evaluation of recommender systems

S Vrijenhoek, L Michiels, J Kruse, A Starke… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are among the most widely used applications of artificial
intelligence. Since they are so widely used, it is important that we, as practitioners and …

EB-NeRD a large-scale dataset for news recommendation

J Kruse, K Lindskow, S Kalloori, M Polignano… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Personalized content recommendations have been pivotal to the content experience in
digital media from video streaming to social networks. However, several domain specific …

A framework and toolkit for testing the correctness of recommendation algorithms

L Michiels, R Verachtert, A Ferraro, K Falk… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Evaluating recommender systems adequately and thoroughly is an important task.
Significant efforts are dedicated to proposing metrics, methods, and protocols for doing so …

RecSys Challenge 2024: Balancing Accuracy and Editorial Values in News Recommendations

J Kruse, K Lindskow, S Kalloori, M Polignano… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The RecSys Challenge 2024 aims to advance news recommendation by addressing both
the technical and normative challenges inherent in designing effective and responsible …