Topic-Centric Explanations for News Recommendation

13 Jun 2023  ·  Dairui Liu, Derek Greene, Irene Li, Xuefei Jiang, Ruihai Dong ·

News recommender systems (NRS) have been widely applied for online news websites to help users find relevant articles based on their interests. Recent methods have demonstrated considerable success in terms of recommendation performance. However, the lack of explanation for these recommendations can lead to mistrust among users and lack of acceptance of recommendations. To address this issue, we propose a new explainable news model to construct a topic-aware explainable recommendation approach that can both accurately identify relevant articles and explain why they have been recommended, using information from associated topics. Additionally, our model incorporates two coherence metrics applied to assess topic quality, providing measure of the interpretability of these explanations. The results of our experiments on the MIND dataset indicate that the proposed explainable NRS outperforms several other baseline systems, while it is also capable of producing interpretable topics compared to those generated by a classical LDA topic model. Furthermore, we present a case study through a real-world example showcasing the usefulness of our NRS for generating explanations.

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