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We welcome you to attend the 2nd Workshop on Measuring the Quality of Explanations in Recommender Systems, co-located with RecSys 2023 (https://recsys.acm.org/recsys23/), September 11, 2023, online.

WHAT’S QUARE

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We invite academics, industry practitioners, designers, developers, and policymakers in all relevant fields (CS, HCI/UX, social science, law) interested in discussing, getting acquainted with, and shaping the research agenda for the evaluation of explanations for recommender systems to participate in the QUARE workshop.

The QUARE workshop will be organised as an interdisciplinary, discussion-centric event that aims to outline a research agenda for generating, evaluating, and operationalising explanations. By engaging and bringing together perspectives and solutions from industry and academia, the workshop will thus facilitate the exchange of various perspectives (technical, social, human factors) regarding the generation, evaluation, and operationalisation of explanations for recommender systems.

The goal of the workshop is to shape, co-create, and share with the community a research agenda for evaluating the quality of recommendation explanations.

More precisely, we address three main questions: 

• Generating explanations: How to balance user needs and organisational objectives when explaining recommendations?
• Evaluating explanations: How to evaluate the quality of explanations through both subjective and objective measures?
• Operationalising explanations: What could be a typical MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for explanations of recommendations? What are the most basic features we may need?

You can find more information on the workshop’s website:

https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2023

PROGRAMME

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https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2023/schedule

https://sites.google.com/view/quare-2023/panelists

This workshop edition features three panel sessions, each panel addressing one of the questions mentioned above.  

Each session will be opened by a series of lightning talks by the panellists, followed by an interactive discussion, where participants will be able to  discuss the topic of the session, asking questions to the panellists, sharing their experiences, and presenting their points of view. 

The workshop will start at 12:30 UTC and have a duration of approximately 5.5 hours.

CONTACT

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Email us at quare-workshop at googlegroups.com if you would like to get more information about the workshop and details about how to attend.

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

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- Oana Inel (University of Zurich, CH) <inel@ifi.uzh.ch>

- Nicolas Mattis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL) <n.m.mattis@vu.nl>

- Milda Norkute (Thomson Reuters Labs, CH) <Milda.Norkute@thomsonreuters.com>

- Alessandro Piscopo (BBC, UK) <alessandro.piscopo@bbc.co.uk>

- Timothée Schmude (University of Vienna, AT) <timothee.schmude@univie.ac.at>

- Sanne Vrijenhoek (University of Amsterdam, NL) <s.vrijenhoek@uva.nl>

- Krisztian Balog (Google Research, NO) <krisztianb@google.com>

On behalf of the Quare organisers,

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Alessandro Piscopo

Lead Data Scientist | Content Discovery