Comparing and evaluating information retrieval algorithms for news recommendation

RecSys'07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 141-144

  Bogers, Toine ^a   Van Den Bosch, Antal ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Information retrieval; Language modeling; News recommendation; Probabilistic IR; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; PROBABILITY;

LANGUAGE MODELING; NEWS RECOMMENDATION; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 42149195033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1297231.1297256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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