Many online news platforms provide comment sections for reader discussions below articles. While users of these platforms often read comments, only a minority of them regularly write comments. To encourage and foster more frequent engagement, we study the task of personalized recommendation of reader discussions to users. We present a neural network model that jointly learns embeddings for users and comments encoding general properties. Based on explicit and implicit user feedback, we sample relevant and irrelevant reader discussions to build a representative training dataset. We compare to several baselines and state-of-the-art approaches in an evaluation on two datasets from The Guardian and Daily Mail. Experimental results show that the recommendations of our approach are superior in terms of precision and recall. Further, the learned user embeddings are of general applicability because they preserve the similarity of users who share interests in similar topics.
Watch our new MOOC in German about hate and fake in the Internet ("Trolle, Hass und Fake-News: Wie können wir das Internet retten?") on openHPI (link).
Our work on Measuring and Comparing Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms for Robust Visualisation of Dynamic Text Collections will be presented at CHIIR 2021.
I added some photos from my trip to Hildesheim.
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