ExpLOD: a Framework for Explaining Recommendations based on the Linked Open Data Cloud. Musto, C., Narducci, F., Lops, P., De Gemmis, M., & Semeraro, G. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems - RecSys '16, 2016.
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In this paper we present ExpLOD, a framework which ex-ploits the information available in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud to generate a natural language explanation of the suggestions produced by a recommendation algorithm. The methodology is based on building a graph in which the items liked by a user are connected to the items recom-mended through the properties available in the LOD cloud. Next, given this graph, we implemented some techniques to rank those properties and we used the most relevant ones to feed a module for generating explanations in natural lan-guage. In the experimental evaluation we performed a user study with 308 subjects aiming to investigate to what extent our explanation framework can lead to more transparent, trust-ful and engaging recommendations. The preliminary results provided us with encouraging findings, since our algorithm performed better than both a non-personalized explanation baseline and a popularity-based one.
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 notes = {La evaluación del sistema consiste en mostrar diferentes estilos de explicación a los usuarios: basada en items (Item X is recommended, because you have tagged and rated items Y), basada en características (Item X is recommended, because it contains features a, b...), y tagcloud. Sólo con esta información, se pide al usuario puntuar la película. Se hace una comparación con las puntuaciones reales (obtenidas de puntuaciones reales de MovieLens) y con estos ratings basados en las explicaciones a través de la media y la desviación estándar.  <br/>La evaluación del framework se realizó con usuarios.<br/>1.- Se les pregunta sobre datos demográficos.<br/>2.- Se muestran explicaciones de diferentes estilos a los usuarios, entre ellas las generadas con este framework. Se pide evaluar la película según esto, Después se muestra el trailer al usuario y se pide evaluar la película otra vez.<br/>3.- Se pide al usuario que puntúe la explicación en base a los objetivos del sistema (transparencia, persuasión, satisfacción, confianza y efectividad).<br/>4.- Se comparan las diferentes puntuaciones antes y después de ver el trailer con medidas de evaluación (diferencia normalizada).},
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 abstract = {In this paper we present ExpLOD, a framework which ex-ploits the information available in the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud to generate a natural language explanation of the suggestions produced by a recommendation algorithm. The methodology is based on building a graph in which the items liked by a user are connected to the items recom-mended through the properties available in the LOD cloud. Next, given this graph, we implemented some techniques to rank those properties and we used the most relevant ones to feed a module for generating explanations in natural lan-guage. In the experimental evaluation we performed a user study with 308 subjects aiming to investigate to what extent our explanation framework can lead to more transparent, trust-ful and engaging recommendations. The preliminary results provided us with encouraging findings, since our algorithm performed better than both a non-personalized explanation baseline and a popularity-based one.},
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 author = {Musto, Cataldo and Narducci, Fedelucio and Lops, Pasquale and De Gemmis, Marco and Semeraro, Giovanni},
 journal = {Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems - RecSys '16}
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