When relevance is not enough: Promoting diversity and freshness in personalized question recommendation

WWW 2013 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1249-1259

  Szpektor, Idan ^a   Maarek, Yoelle ^a   Pelleg, Dan ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Community question answering; Recommender systems; User models

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY QUESTION ANSWERING; CONTROL GROUPS; CURRENT BEHAVIORS; ON-LINE EXPERIMENTS; QUESTION ANSWERING; USER MODELS; USER'S INTEREST;

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84893097999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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