A Stream-based Resource for Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms

Benjamin Kille; Andreas Lommatzsch; Frank Hopfgartner; Martha Larson; Arjen P. de Vries

doi:10.1145/3077136.3080726

A Stream-based Resource for Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms

Benjamin Kille, Andreas Lommatzsch, Frank Hopfgartner, Martha Larson, Arjen P. de Vries

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Abstract

Recommender System research has evolved to focus on developing algorithms capable of high performance in online systems. This development calls for a new evaluation infrastructure that supports multi-dimensional evaluation of recommender systems. Today’s researchers should analyze algorithms with respect to a variety of aspects including predictive performance and scalability. Researchers need to subject algorithms to realistic conditions in online A/B tests.
We introduce two resources supporting such evaluation methodologies: the new data set of stream recommendation interactions released for CLEF NewsREEL 2017, and the new Open Recommendation Platform (ORP). The data set allows researchers to study a stream recommendation problem closely by “replaying” it locally, and ORP makes it possible to take this evaluation “live” in a living
lab scenario. Specifically, ORP allows researchers to deploy their algorithms in a live stream to carry out A/B tests. To our knowledge, NewsREEL is the first online news recommender system resource to be put at the disposal of the research community. In order to encourage others to develop comparable resources for a wide range of domains, we present a list of practical lessons learned in the
development of the dataset and ORP.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1257-1260
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5022-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3077136.3080726
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	SIGIR 2017: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 7 Aug 2017 → 11 Aug 2017 http://sigir.org/sigir2017/

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Conference	SIGIR 2017
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	7/08/17 → 11/08/17
Internet address	http://sigir.org/sigir2017/

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streams
recommender system
multi--dimensional benchmarking

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Kille, B., Lommatzsch, A., Hopfgartner, F., Larson, M., & de Vries, A. P. (2017). A Stream-based Resource for Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017 (pp. 1257-1260). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3077136.3080726

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Kille, B, Lommatzsch, A, Hopfgartner, F, Larson, M & de Vries, AP 2017, A Stream-based Resource for Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms. in Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 1257-1260, SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Japan, 7/08/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3077136.3080726

A Stream-based Resource for Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms. / Kille, Benjamin; Lommatzsch, Andreas; Hopfgartner, Frank et al.
Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017. p. 1257-1260.

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Kille B, Lommatzsch A, Hopfgartner F, Larson M, de Vries AP. A Stream-based Resource for Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Recommender Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2017. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2017. p. 1257-1260 doi: 10.1145/3077136.3080726

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