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Are We Losing Interest in Context-Aware Recommender Systems?

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UMAP Adjunct '24: Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3631700.3665190

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Contextual information is a prerequisite for timely offering of personalized decision support and recommendation. Yet, research on context-aware recommender systems (CARS) does not appear to be thriving, and finding public datasets containing context factors is a challenging task. We can make various assumptions about why this drop in research interest happened – be it ethical considerations or the popularity of opaque deep learning models that merely consider context in an implicit way. This is an unwelcome development. We argue that continued effort must be put on the creation of suitable datasets. Furthermore, we see significant opportunities in the development of next-generation CARS in the space of interactive AI assistants powered by Large Language Models.

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Barman DJeromela JDebnath AVredenborg MVan Kasteren AKay JConlan OBoratto LGena CMarras MGermanakos PPopescus E(2024)Second Workshop on Context Representation in User ModellingAdjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization10.1145/3631700.3658528(225-228)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3631700.3658528

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Are We Losing Interest in Context-Aware Recommender Systems?
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval tasks and goals
      1. Recommender systems

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UMAP Adjunct '24: Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

June 2024

662 pages

ISBN:9798400704666

DOI:10.1145/3631700

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University of Cagliari, Italy
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Barman DJeromela JDebnath AVredenborg MVan Kasteren AKay JConlan OBoratto LGena CMarras MGermanakos PPopescus E(2024)Second Workshop on Context Representation in User ModellingAdjunct Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization10.1145/3631700.3658528(225-228)Online publication date: 27-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3631700.3658528

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