A Survey of Explanations in Recommender Systems

Nava Tintarev; Judith Masthoff

doi:10.1109/ICDEW.2007.4401070

A Survey of Explanations in Recommender Systems

Nava Tintarev, Judith Masthoff

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Abstract

This paper provides a comprehensive review of explanations in recommender systems. We highlight seven possible advantages of an explanation facility, and describe how existing measures can be used to evaluate the quality of explanations.
Since explanations are not independent of the recommendation process, we consider how the ways recommendations are presented may affect explanations. Next, we look at different ways of interacting with explanations. The paper is illustrated with examples of explanations throughout, where possible from existing applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Data Engineering Workshop
Subtitle of host publication	3rd International Workshop on Web Personalisation, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI'07)
Editors	G. Uchyigit
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos, CA, USA
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	801-810
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781424408320
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW.2007.4401070
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2007
Event	IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007) - Istanbul, Turkey Duration: 16 Apr 2007 → 20 Apr 2007

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Conference	IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007)
Country/Territory	Turkey
City	Istanbul
Period	16/04/07 → 20/04/07

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recommender systems
explanations

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A Survey of Explanations in Recommender Systems. / Tintarev, Nava; Masthoff, Judith.
Data Engineering Workshop: 3rd International Workshop on Web Personalisation, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI'07). ed. / G. Uchyigit. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2007. p. 801-810.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Tintarev, N & Masthoff, J 2007, A Survey of Explanations in Recommender Systems. in G Uchyigit (ed.), Data Engineering Workshop: 3rd International Workshop on Web Personalisation, Recommender Systems and Intelligent User Interfaces (WPRSIUI'07). IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 801-810, IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, 16/04/07. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDEW.2007.4401070

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