Best Practices
Academic Publishing
Academic Writing
This page provides guidelines on academic writing for Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. students in the field of recommender systems, and related disciplines. Table of Contents ToggleStructure of a paper or thesisTitleAbstractIntroductionBackgroundResearch ProblemResearch QuestionResearch Goal / Objective / Hypothesis / BenefitsResearch TasksContributionBackgroundRelated WorkOnly provide information relevant to the research problemCreate New Quantifiable (Meta) InformationBe critical (but fair)Searching...
Documentation
Facebook documents its recommender system — a little bit. [Sarah Perez @ Techcrunch] Facebook has not been very open about how its recommender system works exactly. This may be about to change though. Today, Techcrunch announced that Facebook “has, for the first time, made public how its content recommendation guidelines work”. However, Techcrunch also points...
Ethics, Bias, Trust, …
Amnesty International warns that TikTok’s recommendations push children towards harmful mental health In a press release and two reports (Driven into Darkness and “I feel Exposed”), Amnesty International strongly criticizes the recommender system of TikTok. I have not read the reports completely, but they each are around 60 pages long and contain serious allegations. In...
Reviewing
Advice on Reviewing for EMNLP — and ACM RecSys? [EMLP Blog] The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) has published a nice blog post on how to write conference reviews. It also points to several other related articles and blogs giving advice on writing good reviews. While maybe not all advice is...