Giacomo Balloccu

Giacomo Balloccu

PhD Student at University of Cagliari

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Recency, Popularity, and Diversity of Explanations in Knowledge-based Recommendation

Published in 12th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop June 29th - 30th, 2022 Milano, Italy, 2022

Extended Abstract

Recommended citation: Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, and Mirko Marras. 2022. Post Processing Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs for Recency, Popularity, and Diversity of Explanations. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 646–656. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3532041 http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3177/paper18.pdf

Post Processing Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs for Recency, Popularity, and Diversity of Explanations

Published in The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Madrid | July 11-15, 2022, 2022

Full paper

Recommended citation: Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, and Mirko Marras. 2022. Post Processing Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs for Recency, Popularity, and Diversity of Explanations. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 646–656. https://doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3532041 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477495.3532041

Hands on Explainable Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs

Published in 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Seattle, WA, USA, 18th-23rd September 2022, 2022

Tutorial Paper

Recommended citation: Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, and Mirko Marras. 2022. Hands on Explainable Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 710–713. https://doi.org/10.1145/3523227.3547374 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3523227.3547374

Reinforcement Recommendation Reasoning through Knowledge Graphs for Explanation Path Quality

Published in Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems Vol. 260, 2022

Journal paper

Recommended citation: Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, Mirko Marras, Reinforcement recommendation reasoning through knowledge graphs for explanation path quality, Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 260, 2023, 110098, ISSN 0950-7051, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.110098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.110098

Knowledge is Power, Understanding is Impact: Utility and Beyond Goals, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Recommendation

Published in The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), Dublin, Ireland, 2023

Reproducibility

Recommended citation: Balloccu, G., Boratto, L., Cancedda, C., Fenu, G., Marras, M. (2023). Knowledge is Power, Understanding is Impact: Utility and Beyond Goals, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Recommendation. In: Kamps, J., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13982. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_1 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_1

Towards Explainable Educational Recommendation through Path Reasoning Methods

Published in IIR2023: 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, June 8th - 9th, 2023, Pisa, Italy, 2023

Extended Abstract

Recommended citation: Neda Afreen, Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Gianni Fenu, and Mirko Marras. 2023. Towards Explainable Educational Recommendation through Path Reasoning Methods. In Proceedings of the 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR2023), June 8-9, 2023, Pisa, Italy. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3448/paper-29.pdf https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3448/paper-29.pdf

Knowledge-aware Recommendations: Exploring the Interplay between Utility, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Methods

Published in IIR2023: 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, June 8th - 9th, 2023, Pisa, Italy, 2023

Extended Abstract

Recommended citation: Giacomo Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Christian Cancedda, Gianni Fenu, and Mirko Marras. 2023. Knowledge-aware Recommendations: Exploring the Interplay between Utility, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Methods. In Proceedings of the 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR2023), June 8-9, 2023, Pisa, Italy. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3448/paper-26.pdf https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3448/paper-26.pdf

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