Beyond accuracy: Evaluating recommender systems by coverage and serendipity

RecSys'10 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 257-260

  Ge, Mouzhi ^a   Delgado Battenfeld, Carla ^a   Jannach, Dietmar ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coverage; Evaluation metric; Recommender system; Serendipity

Indexed keywords

COVERAGE; EVALUATION METRICS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MEASUREMENT METHODS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SERENDIPITY; USER SATISFACTION;

USER INTERFACES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 78649970493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1864708.1864761     Document Type: Conference Paper

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