A Survey on Conversational Recommender Systems [Jannach et al.]
Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction...
Build a Recommender System in less than 60 minutes with ‘Amazon Personalize’ [Shivek Sachdev@Medium]
Shivek Sachdev wrote a tutorial on how to build a recommender-system with ‘Amazon Personalize’. Bad times! Ever since the Thai government has declared state of...
‘Codespaces’: GitHub Offers Code Hosting for Recommender System Development (and other Software Projects)
Developing recommender-systems takes a lot of time and is usually a collaborative effort including software architectures, software and machine learning engineers, software testers and researchers....
An NLU-Powered Tool to Explore COVID-19 Scientific Literature [Google AI]
Not exactly a recommender system but more a search engine. Yet, this new tool by Google might be interesting to some in the recommender system...
It’s No Joke: Recommender System Beats Humans At Making You Laugh [Michael Yeomans et al. / Diana Gerdeman @ Forbes]
Michael Yeomans et al. published already in October 2019 the paper Making Sense of Recommendations but I just stumbled upon it today, when Dina Gerdeman...
A Case For Embeddings in Recommendation Problems [Arnab Bhadury]
Once you have worked on different machine learning problems, most things in the field start to feel very similar. You take your raw input data,...
New Book: “Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments — A Practical Guide to A/B Testing”
The recommender-system (research) community heavily relies on offline evaluations. While I personally always advocated the use of large-scale online studies and A/B tests, conducting these...
Why are there no continental chapters of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems? E.g. the Asian or European Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSysAsia / RecSysEU)?
The number of submissions and participants at the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems is increasing, year by year. Sometimes, the conference is even sold out...
Google medical researchers humbled when AI screening tool falls short in real-life testing [Devin Coldeway @TechCrunch]
Google achieved great ‘theoretical accuracy’ on the detection of diabetic retinopathy. However, in the real-world their approach didn’t perform so well. While this is not...
Building Recommender Systems, An Introductory List [Arnie B. @Flipboard]
Here is a curated collection of my favourite posts for people starting out in recommender systems and personalization. This was created in preparation for our...