Search Results for author: Elisabeth Lex

Found 28 papers, 14 papers with code

Framing Analysis of Health-Related Narratives: Conspiracy versus Mainstream Media

no code implementations18 Jan 2024 Markus Reiter-Haas, Beate Klösch, Markus Hadler, Elisabeth Lex

Understanding how online media frame issues is crucial due to their impact on public opinion.

The Impact of Differential Privacy on Recommendation Accuracy and Popularity Bias

1 code implementation8 Jan 2024 Peter Müllner, Elisabeth Lex, Markus Schedl, Dominik Kowald

In this work, we study how DP impacts recommendation accuracy and popularity bias, when applied to the training data of state-of-the-art recommendation models.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems

FrameFinder: Explorative Multi-Perspective Framing Extraction from News Headlines

1 code implementation14 Dec 2023 Markus Reiter-Haas, Beate Klösch, Markus Hadler, Elisabeth Lex

Revealing the framing of news articles is an important yet neglected task in information seeking and retrieval.

Retrieval

Beyond-Accuracy: A Review on Diversity, Serendipity and Fairness in Recommender Systems Based on Graph Neural Networks

no code implementations3 Oct 2023 Tomislav Duricic, Dominik Kowald, Emanuel Lacic, Elisabeth Lex

This review paper focuses on addressing these dimensions in GNN-based recommender systems, going beyond the conventional accuracy-centric perspective.

Collaborative Filtering Fairness +2

mCPT at SemEval-2023 Task 3: Multilingual Label-Aware Contrastive Pre-Training of Transformers for Few- and Zero-shot Framing Detection

1 code implementation17 Mar 2023 Markus Reiter-Haas, Alexander Ertl, Kevin Innerebner, Elisabeth Lex

This paper presents the winning system for the zero-shot Spanish framing detection task, which also achieves competitive places in eight additional languages.

A Study on Accuracy, Miscalibration, and Popularity Bias in Recommendations

3 code implementations1 Mar 2023 Dominik Kowald, Gregor Mayr, Markus Schedl, Elisabeth Lex

However, a study that relates miscalibration and popularity lift to recommendation accuracy across different user groups is still missing.

Adversarial Inter-Group Link Injection Degrades the Fairness of Graph Neural Networks

1 code implementation13 Sep 2022 Hussain Hussain, Meng Cao, Sandipan Sikdar, Denis Helic, Elisabeth Lex, Markus Strohmaier, Roman Kern

We hope our findings raise awareness about this issue in our community and lay a foundation for the future development of GNN models that are more robust to such attacks.

Fairness Node Classification

ReuseKNN: Neighborhood Reuse for Differentially-Private KNN-Based Recommendations

1 code implementation23 Jun 2022 Peter Müllner, Elisabeth Lex, Markus Schedl, Dominik Kowald

User-based KNN recommender systems (UserKNN) utilize the rating data of a target user's k nearest neighbors in the recommendation process.

Recommendation Systems

Position Paper on Simulating Privacy Dynamics in Recommender Systems

no code implementations14 Sep 2021 Peter Müllner, Elisabeth Lex, Dominik Kowald

With this work, we hope to present perspectives on how privacy-aware simulations could be realized, such that they enable researchers to study the dynamics of privacy within a recommender system.

Position Recommendation Systems

Analyzing Item Popularity Bias of Music Recommender Systems: Are Different Genders Equally Affected?

no code implementations16 Aug 2021 Oleg Lesota, Alessandro B. Melchiorre, Navid Rekabsaz, Stefan Brandl, Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex, Markus Schedl

In this work, in contrast, we propose to investigate popularity differences (between the user profile and recommendation list) in terms of median, a variety of statistical moments, as well as similarity measures that consider the entire popularity distributions (Kullback-Leibler divergence and Kendall's tau rank-order correlation).

Collaborative Filtering Music Recommendation +1

Predicting Music Relistening Behavior Using the ACT-R Framework

1 code implementation4 Aug 2021 Markus Reiter-Haas, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Markus Schedl, Elham Motamedi, Marko Tkalcic, Elisabeth Lex

In this paper, we describe a psychology-informed approach to model and predict music relistening behavior that is inspired by studies in music psychology, which relate music preferences to human memory.

Recommendation Systems Retrieval

Structack: Structure-based Adversarial Attacks on Graph Neural Networks

1 code implementation23 Jul 2021 Hussain Hussain, Tomislav Duricic, Elisabeth Lex, Denis Helic, Markus Strohmaier, Roman Kern

In this work, we study adversarial attacks that are uninformed, where an attacker only has access to the graph structure, but no information about node attributes.

Support the Underground: Characteristics of Beyond-Mainstream Music Listeners

1 code implementation24 Feb 2021 Dominik Kowald, Peter Muellner, Eva Zangerle, Christine Bauer, Markus Schedl, Elisabeth Lex

In this paper, we study the characteristics of beyond-mainstream music and music listeners and analyze to what extent these characteristics impact the quality of music recommendations provided.

Recommendation Systems

Robustness of Meta Matrix Factorization Against Strict Privacy Constraints

1 code implementation18 Jan 2021 Peter Müllner, Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex

In this paper, we explore the reproducibility of MetaMF, a meta matrix factorization framework introduced by Lin et al. MetaMF employs meta learning for federated rating prediction to preserve users' privacy.

Meta-Learning

On the Impact of Communities on Semi-supervised Classification Using Graph Neural Networks

1 code implementation30 Oct 2020 Hussain Hussain, Tomislav Duricic, Elisabeth Lex, Roman Kern, Denis Helic

In this work, we systematically study the impact of community structure on the performance of GNNs in semi-supervised node classification on graphs.

Classification General Classification +2

Listener Modeling and Context-aware Music Recommendation Based on Country Archetypes

no code implementations11 Sep 2020 Markus Schedl, Christine Bauer, Wolfgang Reisinger, Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex

To complement and extend these results, the article at hand delivers the following major contributions: First, using state-of-the-art unsupervised learning techniques, we identify and thoroughly investigate (1) country profiles of music preferences on the fine-grained level of music tracks (in contrast to earlier work that relied on music preferences on the artist level) and (2) country archetypes that subsume countries sharing similar patterns of listening preferences.

Music Recommendation

Empirical Comparison of Graph Embeddings for Trust-Based Collaborative Filtering

no code implementations30 Mar 2020 Tomislav Duricic, Hussain Hussain, Emanuel Lacic, Dominik Kowald, Denis Helic, Elisabeth Lex

In this work, we study the utility of graph embeddings to generate latent user representations for trust-based collaborative filtering.

Collaborative Filtering Network Embedding

Utilizing Human Memory Processes to Model Genre Preferences for Personalized Music Recommendations

no code implementations24 Mar 2020 Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex, Markus Schedl

In this paper, we introduce a psychology-inspired approach to model and predict the music genre preferences of different groups of users by utilizing human memory processes.

The Unfairness of Popularity Bias in Music Recommendation: A Reproducibility Study

3 code implementations10 Dec 2019 Dominik Kowald, Markus Schedl, Elisabeth Lex

The recent work of Abdollahpouri et al. in the context of movie recommendations has shown that this popularity bias leads to unfair treatment of both long-tail items as well as users with little interest in popular items.

Music Recommendation Recommendation Systems

Using the Open Meta Kaggle Dataset to Evaluate Tripartite Recommendations in Data Markets

no code implementations12 Aug 2019 Dominik Kowald, Matthias Traub, Dieter Theiler, Heimo Gursch, Emanuel Lacic, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Roman Kern, Elisabeth Lex

The presented work contributes to the tripartite recommendation problem in general and to the under-researched portfolio of evaluating recommender systems for data markets in particular.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems

Evaluating Tag Recommendations for E-Book Annotation Using a Semantic Similarity Metric

no code implementations12 Aug 2019 Emanuel Lacic, Dominik Kowald, Dieter Theiler, Matthias Traub, Lucky Kuffer, Stefanie Lindstaedt, Elisabeth Lex

Our idea is to mimic the vocabulary of users in Amazon, who search for and review e-books, and to combine these search terms with editor tags in a hybrid tag recommendation approach.

Descriptive Recommendation Systems +3

The Impact of Time on Hashtag Reuse in Twitter: A Cognitive-Inspired Hashtag Recommendation Approach

1 code implementation2 Aug 2019 Elisabeth Lex, Dominik Kowald

Here [KPL17], we adopt the BLL equation to model temporal reuse patterns of individual (i. e., reusing own hashtags) and social hashtags (i. e., reusing hashtags, which has been previously used by a followee) and to build a cognitive-inspired hashtag recommendation algorithm.

Modeling Artist Preferences of Users with Different Music Consumption Patterns for Fair Music Recommendations

no code implementations23 Jul 2019 Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex, Markus Schedl

Music recommender systems have become central parts of popular streaming platforms such as Last. fm, Pandora, or Spotify to help users find music that fits their preferences.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems

Should we Embed? A Study on the Online Performance of Utilizing Embeddings for Real-Time Job Recommendations

no code implementations15 Jul 2019 Markus Reiter-Haas, Emanuel Lacic, Tomislav Duricic, Valentin Slawicek, Elisabeth Lex

In this work, we present the findings of an online study, where we explore the impact of utilizing embeddings to recommend job postings under real-time constraints.

Exploiting weak ties in trust-based recommender systems using regular equivalence

no code implementations12 Jun 2019 Tomislav Duricic, Emanuel Lacic, Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex

Such relationships typically form a very sparse trust network, which can be utilized to generate recommendations for users based on people they trust.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems

Trust-Based Collaborative Filtering: Tackling the Cold Start Problem Using Regular Equivalence

no code implementations18 Jul 2018 Tomislav Duricic, Emanuel Lacic, Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex

In our work, we explore the use of a measure from network science, i. e. regular equivalence, applied to a trust network to generate a similarity matrix that is used to select the k-nearest neighbors for recommending items.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems

Attention Please! A Hybrid Resource Recommender Mimicking Attention-Interpretation Dynamics

1 code implementation30 Jan 2015 Paul Seitlinger, Dominik Kowald, Simone Kopeinik, Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi, Tobias Ley, Elisabeth Lex

Classic resource recommenders like Collaborative Filtering (CF) treat users as being just another entity, neglecting non-linear user-resource dynamics shaping attention and interpretation.

Collaborative Filtering

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