bias collaborative filtering collaborative systems contact recommendation context diversity ensembles evaluation experimental methodology false positive finance group recommendation hybrid recommendation information extraction information retrieval information retrieval models information retrieval theory knn link prediction metasearch metrics multi-armed bandits multimedia retrieval news retrieval nlp non-random missing data novelty performance prediction personalization popularity probability ranking principle rank aggregation rank fusion recommender systems relation extraction semantic annotation semantic search semantics social networks web services
2020 |
| R. Cañamares, P. Castells. On Target Item Sampling in Offline Recommender System Evaluation. 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020). Virtual Event, Brazil, September 2020, pp. 259–268. |
| J. Sanz-Cruzado, P. Castells, C. Macdonald, I. Ounis. Effective Contact Recommendation in Social Networks by Adaptation of Information Retrieval Models. Information Processing & Management 57(5), September 2020. |
| R. Cañamares, P. Castells, A. Moffat. Offline Evaluation Options for Recommender Systems. Information Retrieval 23(4), August 2020, pp. 387-410. |
| D. Valcarce, A. Bellogín, J. Parapar, P. Castells. Assessing ranking metrics in top-N recommendation. Information Retrieval 23(4), August 2020, pp. 411-448. |
| E. Mena-Maldonado, R. Cañamares, P. Castells, Y. Ren, M. Sanderson. Agreement and Disagreement between True and False-Positive Metrics in Recommender Systems Evaluation. 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020). Virtual Event, China, July 2020, pp. 841-850. |
| J. Sanz-Cruzado, C. Macdonald, I. Ounis, P. Castells. Axiomatic Analysis of Contact Recommendation Methods in Social Networks: an IR perspective. 42th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 12035. Lisbon, Portugal, April 2020, ISBN: 978-3-030-45439-5, pp. 175-90. |
2019 |
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J. Sanz-Cruzado, P. Castells, E. López.
A Simple Multi-Armed Nearest-Neighbor Bandit for Interactive Recommendation.
13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019). Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2019, pp. 358-362. Poster |
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R. Cañamares, M. Redondo, P. Castells.
Multi-Armed Recommender System Bandit Ensembles.
13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2019). Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2019, pp. 432-436. Poster |
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J. Sanz-Cruzado, P. Castells.
Information Retrieval Models for Contact Recommendation in Social Networks.
41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11437. Cologne, Germany, April 2019, ISBN: 978-3-030-15711-1, pp. 148-163. Slides |
| J. Sanz-Cruzado, P. Castells. Beyond Accuracy in Link Prediction. 3rd Workshop on Social Media for Personalization And Search (SoMePeAS 2019) at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019). Cologne, Germany, April 2019. |
2018 |
| J. Sanz-Cruzado, P. Castells. Contact Recommendations in Social Networks. In S. Berkovsky, I. Cantador, D. Tikk (Eds.): Collaborative Recommendations: Algorithms, Practical Challenges and Applications. World Scientific Publishing, November 2018, ISBN: 978-981-3275-35-5, pp. 519-569. |
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P. Castells, R. Cañamares.
Characterization of Fair Experiments for Recommender System Evaluation – A Formal Analysis.
Workshop on Offline Evaluation for Recommender Systems (REVEAL 2018) at the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018). Vancouver, Canada, October 2018. Poster |
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J. Sanz-Cruzado, P. Castells.
Enhancing Structural Diversity in Social Networks by Recommending Weak Ties.
12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018). Vancouver, Canada, October 2018, pp. 233-241. Slides | Poster |
| D. Valcarce, A. Bellogín, J. Parapar, P. Castells. On the Robustness and Discriminative Power of IR Metrics for Top-N Recommendation. 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018). Vancouver, Canada, October 2018, pp. 260-268. |
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R. Cañamares, P. Castells.
Should I Follow the Crowd? A Probabilistic Analysis of the Effectiveness of Popularity in Recommender Systems.
41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, July 2018, pp. 415-424 — best paper award. Slides |
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R. Cañamares, P. Castells.
From the PRP to the Low Prior Discovery Recall Principle for Recommender Systems.
41st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. July 2018, pp. 1081-1084. Poster |
| J. Sanz-Cruzado, S. M. Pepa, P. Castells. Structural Novelty and Diversity in Link Prediction. 9th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2018) at The Web Conference (TheWebConf 2018). Lyon, France, April 2018. |
2017 |
| R. Cañamares, P. Castells. On the Optimal Non-Personalized Recommendation: From the PRP to the Discovery False Negative Principle. ACM SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks (ATIR 2017). Tokyo, Japan, August 2017. |
| A. Bellogín, P. Castells, I. Cantador. Statistical Biases in Information Retrieval Metrics for Recommender Systems. Information Retrieval 20(6), July 2017, pp. 606-634. |
2015 |
| P. Castells, N. J. Hurley, S. Vargas. Novelty and Diversity in Recommender Systems. In Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira (Eds.): Recommender Systems Handbook, 2nd edition. Springer, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-4899-7637-6, pp. 881-918. |
2014 |
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S. Vargas, L. Baltrunas, A. Karatzoglou, P. Castells.
Coverage, Redundancy and Size-Awareness in Genre Diversity for Recommender Systems.
8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014). Foster City, CA, USA, October 2014, pp. 209-216. Slides | Poster |
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S. Vargas, P. Castells.
Improving Sales Diversity by Recommending Users to Items.
8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014). Foster City, CA, USA, October 2014, pp. 145-152. Slides | Poster |
| R. Cañamares, P. Castells. Exploring social network effects on popularity biases in recommender systems. 6th Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web (RSWeb 2014) at the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014). Foster City, CA, USA, October 2014. |
| A. Bellogín, P. Castells, I. Cantador. Neighbor Selection and Weighting in User-Based Collaborative Filtering: A Performance Prediction Approach. ACM Transactions on the Web 8(2), March 2014. |
2013 |
| A. Bellogín, J. Wang, P. Castells. Bridging Memory-Based Collaborative Filtering and Text Retrieval. Information Retrieval 16(6), December 2013, pp. 697-724. |
| A. Bellogín, J. Parapar, P. Castells. Probabilistic Collaborative Filtering with Negative Cross Entropy. 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013). Hong Kong, China, October 2013, pp. 387-390. |
| J. Parapar, A. Bellogín, P. Castells, A. Barreiro. Relevance-Based Language Modelling for Recommender Systems. Information Processing & Management 49(4), July 2013. |
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S. Vargas, P. Castells.
Exploiting the Diversity of User Preferences for Recommendation.
10th International Conference in the RIAO series (OAIR 2013). Lisbon, Portugal, May 2013. Slides |
| A. Bellogín, I. Cantador, P. Castells, F. Díez. Exploiting Social Networks in Recommendation: a Multi-Domain Comparison. 13th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR 2013). Delft, Netherlands, April 2013. |
| A. Bellogín, I. Cantador, F. Díez, P. Castells, E. Chavarriaga. An Empirical Comparison of Social, Collaborative Filtering, and Hybrid Recommenders. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 4(1), special issue on Context-Aware Movie Recommendations, February 2013. |
| A. Bellogín, I. Cantador, P. Castells. A Comparative Study of Heterogeneous Item Recommendations in Social Systems. Information Sciences 221(1), February 2013, pp. 142-169. |
2012 |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells. Group Recommender Systems: New Perspectives in the Social Web. In J. J. Pazos Arias, A. Fernández Vilas, R. P. Díaz Redondo (Eds.): Recommender Systems for the Social Web. Springer Verlag, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, Vol. 32, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-642-25693-6, pp. 139-157. |
2011 |
| A. Bellogín, P. Castells, I. Cantador. Precision-Oriented Evaluation of Recommender Systems: An Algorithmic Comparison. 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). Chicago, Illinois, October 2011, pp. 333-336. |
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S. Vargas, P. Castells.
Rank and Relevance in Novelty and Diversity Metrics for Recommender Systems.
5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). Chicago, Illinois, October 2011, pp. 109-116. Slides |
| A. Bellogín, J. Wang, P. Castells. Structured Collaborative Filtering. 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011). Glasgow, UK, October 2011, pp. 2257-2260. |
| A. Bellogín, P. Castells, I. Cantador. Predicting the Performance of Recommender Systems: An Information Theoretic Approach. 3rd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2011) - Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 6931. Bertinoro, Italy, September 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-23317-3, pp. 27-39. |
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S. Vargas, P. Castells, D. Vallet.
Intent-Oriented Diversity in Recommender Systems.
34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011). Beijing, China, July 2011, pp. 1211-1212. Poster |
| A. Bellogín, P. Castells, I. Cantador. Self-adjusting Hybrid Recommenders Based on Social Network Analysis. 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011). Beijing, China, July 2011, pp. 1147-1148. |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells. Extracting Multilayered Communities of Interest from Semantic User Profiles: Application to Group Modeling and Hybrid Recommendations. Computers in Human Behavior 27(4), special issue on Social and Humanistic Computing for the Knowledge Society, July 2011, pp. 1321-1336. |
| P. Castells, S. Vargas, J. Wang. Novelty and Diversity Metrics for Recommender Systems: Choice, Discovery and Relevance. International Workshop on Diversity in Document Retrieval (DDR 2011) at the 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2011). Dublin, Ireland, April 2011. |
| A. Bellogín, I. Cantador, P. Castells, Á. Ortigosa. Discerning Relevant Model Features in a Content-based Collaborative Recommender System. In J. Fürnkranz, E. Hüllermeier (Eds.): Preference Learning. Springer Verlag, 2011, ISBN: 978-3-642-14124-9, pp. 429-456. |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells, A. Bellogín. An Enhanced Semantic Layer for Hybrid Recommender Systems: Application to News Recommendation. International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 7(1), 2011, pp. 44-78. |
2010 |
| A. Bellogín, P. Castells. A Performance Prediction Approach to Enhance Collaborative Filtering Performance. 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5993. Milton Keynes, UK, May 2010, ISBN: 978-3642122743, pp. 382-393. |
2009 |
| A. Bellogín, P. Castells. Predicting Neighbor Goodness in Collaborative Filtering. 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2009), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5822. Roskilde, Denmark, October 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-04956-9, pp. 605-616. |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells. Semantic Contextualisation in a News Recommender Systems. Workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS 2009) at the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2009). New York, NY, USA, October 2009. |
2008 |
| I. Cantador, A. Bellogín, P. Castells. Ontology-based Personalised and Context-aware Recommendations of News Items. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2008). Sydney, Australia, December 2008. |
| A. Bellogín, I. Cantador, P. Castells, A. Ortigosa. Discovering Relevant Preferences in a Personalised Recommender System using Machine Learning Techniques. Preference Learning Workshop (PL 2008), at the 8th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2008). Antwerp, Belgium, September 2008, pp. 82-96. |
| I. Cantador, A. Bellogín, P. Castells. News@hand: A Semantic Web Approach to Recommending News. 5th International Conference on Adaptative Hypermedia (AH 2008), Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5149. Hannover, Germany, July 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-70984-8, pp. 279-283. |
| I. Cantador, M. Szomszor, H. Alani, M. Fernández, P. Castells. Enriching Ontological User Profiles with Tagging History for Multi-Domain Recommendations. 1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective Intelligence and the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008), at the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008). Tenerife, Spain, June 2008, pp. 5-19. |
| I. Cantador, A. Bellogín, P. Castells. A Multilayer Ontology-based Hybrid Recommendation Model. AI Communications 21(2-3), special issue on Recommender Systems, April 2008, pp. 203-210. |
2007 |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells, A. Bellogín. Modelling Ontology-based Multilayered Communities of Interest for Hybrid Recommendations. 1st Workshop on Adaptation and Personalization in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities (SociUM 2007) at the 11th International Conference on User Modeling (UM 2007). Corfu, Greece, June 2007. |
| I. Cantador, M. Fernández, P. Castells. Improving Ontology Recommendation and Reuse in WebCORE by Collaborative Assessments. Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured Knowledge at the 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007). Banff, Canada, May 2007. |
2006 |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells. Multilayered Semantic Social Network Modeling by Ontology-Based User Profiles Clustering: Application to Collaborative Filtering. 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2006). Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4248. Podebrady, Czech Republic, October 2006, ISSN: 3-540-46363-1, pp. 334-349. |
| I. Cantador, M. Fernández, P. Castells. A Collaborative Recommendation Framework for Ontology Evaluation and Reuse. International Workshop on Recommender Systems at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006). Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2006. |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells, D. Vallet. Enriching Group Profiles with Ontologies for Knowledge-Driven Collaborative Content Retrieval. 1st Int. Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications (STICA 2006), at the 15th IEEE Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2006). Manchester, UK, June 2006. |
| I. Cantador, P. Castells. Multilayered Ontology-Based User Profiles and Semantic Social Networks for Recommender Systems. 2nd Int. Workshop on Web Personalisation, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI 2006) at the 4th Int. Conf. on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2006). Dublin, Ireland, June 2006. |