9th International Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics (INRA 2021) will be held in conjunction with RecSys 2021


Please note that there may be changes in the program. Please check this page before you attend the sessions.

INRA 2021 will be held in a hybrid format which includes a virtual session and a physical session. The physical session will be streamed.


25.09.2021 Saturday 15.00-19.00

Virtual session

15.00 – 15.10 Introduction & welcome

15.10 – 15.45 Keynote speech: Frank Hopfgartner, University of Sheffield
                          "Do you see what I see? Search Engines as a Lens of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

15.45 – 16.00 Break (wonder.me)

16.00 – 17.00 Panel Discussion: News Personalization in the Age of Fake News and Polarization
                        Moderator: Frank Hopfgartner, University of Sheffield

                        Panelists (Bio of the panelists):
                        Damian Trilling, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

                        Edward Malthouse, Northwestern University, USA
                        Jonathan Stray, Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI
                        Judith Möller, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
                        Konstantin Pogorelov, Simula Reserach Lab, Norway
   

17.00 – 17.15 Break (wonder.me)

17.15 – 18.00 Discussion session with breakout rooms

    17.15 – 17.30 Introduction of the discussion topics:

  • Towards an Experimental News User Community as Infrastructure for Recommendation Research,               
    Joseph Konstan, Robin Burke, and Edward Malthouse.
  •  Algorithmic Personalisation in the News Domain
  • Combating Misinformation
  • Multi-modal News Content

    17.30 – 18.00 Break-out rooms


28.09.2021 Tuesday 09.30 – 13.00

Physical session

09.30 – 09.40 Introduction & welcome

09.40 – 10.15 Daan Odijk "Diverse News Recommendation at RTL"

10.15 – 10.30 Paper presentation: How to Effectively Identify and Communicate Person-Targeting Media Bias in Daily News Consumption? Felix Hamborg, Timo Spinde, Kim Heinser, Karsten Donnay and Bela Gipp.

10.30 – 10.45 Break

10.45 – 11.05 Paper presentation: Predicting Feature-based Similarity in the News Domain Using Human Judgments. Alain Starke, Sebastian Øverhaug Larsen and Christoph Trattner.

11.05 – 11.25 Paper presentation: Semi-Automated Identification of News Story Chains: A New Dataset and Entity-based Labeling Method. Fatih Gedikli, Anne Stockem Novo and Dietmar Jannach.

11.25 – 11.40 Break

11.40 – 11.55 Paper presentation: Interactive Visualization of the Polarity-based Stance of News Websites using News Genres. Masaharu Yoshioka, Norihiko Tatsunami, Masahiko Itoh, Noriko Kando and James Allan.

11.55 – 12.15 Paper presentation: Information overload and user satisfaction: Balance between reliance on recommendations and deliberate news selection. Zhixin Pu and Michael Beam.

12.15 – 13.00 Interactive session & mingling
              Introduction of the upcoming events (seminars, conferences, challenges, projects etc.) from the participants.




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