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Recommendation algorithms typically work by suggesting items that are similar to the ones that a user likes, or items that similar users like. We propose a content-based recommendation technique with the focus on serendipity of news recommendations. Serendipitous recommendations have the characteristic of being unexpected yet fortunate and interesting to the user, and thus might yield higher user satisfaction. In our work, we explore the concept of serendipity in the area of news articles and propose a general framework that incorporates the benefits of serendipity- and similarity-based recommendation techniques. An evaluation against other baseline recommendation models is carried out in a user study.
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Jenders, M., Lindhauer, T., Kasneci, G., Krestel, R., Naumann, F. (2015). A Serendipity Model for News Recommendation. In: Hölldobler, S., , Peñaloza, R., Rudolph, S. (eds) KI 2015: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9324. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24489-1_9
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