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4th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2016) will be held in conjunction with UMAP 2016, 13-17 July 2016, Halifax, Canada.
Bei Yu from Syracuse University, USA will give a keynote speech at INRA 2016.
About the talk:
News Recommendation and Analytics in a Polarizing World
In recent years, the concerns over public opinion polarization and misinformation spread are rapidly increasing, particularly on politics and science topics. Online social media and personalized search and recommender systems have been warned as a contributing factor for segregating opinions by creating the so-called "echo-chambers" and "filter bubbles". Could we change the recommender system for healthier opinion exchange? Would designing algorithms to diversify opinions in recommended items help alleviate the problem? Drawing on theoretical and empirical studies from multiple disciplines, this talk will discuss the challenge of news recommendation and analytics in the polarizing world, and how interdisciplinary research like natural language processing and cognitive psychology might be able to help design and evaluate future recommender systems.
About the speaker:
Bei Yu
Associate Professor at School of Information Studies
Syracuse University, USA
byu@syr.edu
Our keynote speaker will be announced later.