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Improving consumption diversity via graph-based topic nudging

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Stefaan Vercoutere *
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Glen Joris
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Toon De Pessemier
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Luc Martens
DOI:10.1007/s11257-025-09429-1delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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With the ever-growing amount of news, there is an increasing need for tools capable of filtering out and tailoring the content to the wants and needs of the reader. Over the last decade, researchers have noted that the inclusion of objectives such as diversity, novelty, and serendipity plays a vital role in further improving recommender systems' perceived value and effectiveness. However, most of these studies limit themselves to a narrow definition of diversity; they only consider individual lists of recommendations, and the impact of diversity on the actual reading behavior of users is typically not examined. In this paper, we present our news recommender system that addresses this problem and aims to increase the diversity of content selected by the user. We propose a pre-filtering graph-based approach of extending the user profile to nudge him/her along a path toward unseen news topics. Results from an online experiment (N = 288) show that (1) intra-list and consumption diversity are significantly improved with negligible impact on accuracy and (2) that the use of diversity-optimized recommender systems can lead to an increase in user satisfaction.
Keywords:
News
Recommender systems
Knowledge graphs
Exposure diversity
Consumption diversity
IPTC media topics
Nudging

Journal

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User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
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3.5
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532
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1.7K

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Ghent University
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