2012 TransparentUserModelsforPersona

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Personalization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in our daily online experience. While such technology is critical for helping us combat the overload of information we face, in many cases, we may not even realize that our results are being tailored to our personal tastes and preferences. Worse yet, when such a system makes a mistake, we have little recourse to correct it.

In this work, we propose a framework for addressing this problem by developing a new user-interpretable feature set upon which to base personalized recommendations. These features, which we call badges, represent fundamental traits of users (e.g., “vegetarian” or “Apple fanboy") inferred by modeling the interplay between a user's behavior and self-reported identity. Specifically, we consider the microblogging site Twitter, where users provide short descriptions of themselves in their profiles, as well as perform actions such as tweeting and retweeting. Our approach is based on the insight that we can define badges using high precision, low recall rules (e.g.," Twitter profile contains the phrase ' Apple fanboy' ), and with enough data, generalize to other users by observing shared behavior. We develop a fully Bayesian, generative model that describes this interaction, while allowing us to avoid the pitfalls associated with having positive-only data.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2012 TransparentUserModelsforPersona	Khalid El-Arini Ralf Herbrich Blaise Agüera y Arcas Ulrich Paquet Jurgen Van Gael			Transparent User Models for Personalization				10.1145/2339530.2339639		2012