Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera.
"Multi-attentive Recurrent Neural Network Architecture for Multilingual Readability Assessment". To appear in: Transactions of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, 2019.
Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Casey Kennington, Katherine Landau Wright, and William Bigirimana.
"Query Formulation Assistance for Kids: What is Available,
When to Help & What Kids Want". In: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC)
(pp. 109-120), Boise, Idaho, June 2019.
Monica Landoni, Davide Matteri, Emiliana Murgia, and Maria Soledad Pera.
"Sonny Cerca! Evaluating the Impact of Using a Vocal Assistant to Search at School". To appear in: Proceedings of the Conference and Lans of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2019),
2019.
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Michael Green, Ashlee Milton, and Maria Soledad Pera.
"The Need for a Comprehensive Strategy to Evaluate Search Engine Performance in the Classroom". In: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Children Recommender and Information Systems (KidRec) co-located with ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference,
2019.
Monica Landoni, Emiliana Murgia, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera.
"My name is Sonny, How May I help You Searching for Information?". In: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Children Recommender and Information Systems (KidRec) co-located with ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference,
2019.
Michael Green, Oghenemaro Anuyah, Devan Karsann, and Maria Soledad Pera.
"Evaluating Prediction-based Recommenders for Kids". In: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Children Recommender and Information Systems (KidRec) co-located with ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference,
2019.
Brody Downs, Tyler French, Katherine Landau Wright, Maria Soledad Pera, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Alan Fails.
"Children and Search Tools: Evaluation remains Unclear". In: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Children Recommender and Information Systems (KidRec) co-located with ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference,
2019.
Brody Downs, Tyler French, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright, Casey Kennington, and Jerry Alan Fails.
"Searching for Spellcheckers: What kids want, what kids need". In: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on
Interaction Design and Children (IDC) (pp. 568-573), Boise, Idaho, June 2019.
Theo Huibers, Natalia Kucirkova, Emiliana Murgia, Jerry Alan Fails, Monica Landoni, and Maria Soledad Pera.
"3rd KidRec Workshop: What does good look like?". In: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on
Interaction Design and Children (IDC) (pp. 681-688), Boise, Idaho, June 2019.
Katherine Landau Wright, D McNeill, Michael Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. "Finding the right text for every student: Challenges and
possibilities of online resources". American Educational Research Association Conference,
Toronto, Canada, 2019.
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, and Maria Soledad Pera. "Using structured knowledge and traditional word embeddings
to generate concept representations in the educational domain". In Companion proceedings of World Wide Web Conference (pp. 274-282),
2019 (Track: Deep Learning for Graphs and Structured Data Embedding). |
DATASET
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, and Maria Soledad Pera. "Lightning Talk - Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from theMovie Frozen?:
A multi-perspective strategy for recommending queries for children". In Companion proceedings of World Wide Web Conference (pp. 1266-1267), 2019 (Track: Women in Web Data Science).
Natalia Kucirkova, Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, and Theo Huibers. "Children and Search/Recommendations Algorithms : what adults need to know".
DigilitEY, Available at: http://digilitey.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Algorithms-for-children-Report.pdf, 2018.
Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, and Natalia Kucirkova. "Building Community: Report on the 2nd
International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2018". SIGIR Forum, (Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 138-144), 2018.
Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, and Maria Soledad Pera. “From Recommendation to Curation: When the system becomes your personal docent". In:
Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS); co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2018.
Michael Ekstrand, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. “Retrieving and Recommending for the Classroom: Stakeholders, Objectives, Resources, and Users”. In:
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios; co-located with ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Vancouver, Canada, 2018.
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Michael Green, Oghenemaro Anuyah, and Maria Soledad Pera. “Can we leverage rating patterns from traditional users to enhance recommendations for children?”. In:
Poster Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '18), Vancouver, Canada, 2018.
Anu Shresta, Francesca Spezzano, and Maria Soledad Pera. “Who is Really Affected by Fraudulent Reviews?: An analysis of shilling attacks on recommender systems in real-world scenarios”. In:
Poster Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '18), Vancouver, Canada, 2018.
Yiu-Kai Ng and Maria Soledad Pera. “Recommending Social-Interactive Games for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)”. In: Proceedings of
the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 209-213), Vancouver, Canada, 2018.
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Jerry Alan Fails, and Maria Soledad Pera. “Investigating Query Formulation Assistance for Children”. In: Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference
on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 581-586), Trondheim, Norway, 2018.
Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Wright, and Michael D. Ekstrand. "Recommending
Texts to Children with an Expert in the Loop". In Proceedings of the 2nd International
Workshop on Children and Recommender Systems (Kidrec), IDC 2018, Trondheim, Norway, June, 2018.
Katherine Wright, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. "Supplementing Classroom Texts with Online Resources: Challenges and Possibilities".
To be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Northwest Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association,
Salt Lake City, UTAH, 2018. (25-Minute Research Presentation).
Jerry Alan Fails, Maria Soledad Pera, Natalia Kucirkova, and Franca Garzotto. "International and interdisciplinary perspectives on children and recommender
systems (KidRec)". In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference
on Interaction Design and Children, pp. 705-712. ACM, 2018.
Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Mirko Gelsomini, and Franca Garzotto. "Building Community: Report on KidRec Workshop on Children and Recommender Systems
at RecSys 2017". SIGIR Forum, (Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 153–161), 2018.
Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiu-Kai Ng. “Recommending Books to be Exchanged Online in the Absence of Wish Lists”. In Journal of the Association for Information Science
and Technology (Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 541–552), 2018.
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, Oghenemaro Anuyah, and Maria Soledad Pera. “Looking for the Movie Seven or Sven from the Movie Frozen? A Multi-perspective Strategy
for Recommending Queries for Children”. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) (pp. 92-101), New Brunswick, 2018. |
DATASET
Michael D. Ekstrand, Mucun Tian, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Jennifer D. Ekstrand, Oghenemaro Anuyah, David McNeill, and Maria Soledad Pera. “All The Cool Kids, How Do They Fit In?:
Popularity and Demographic Biases in Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness”. In Proceedings of the Machine Learning research in the Fairness, Accountability and Transparency
Conference (pp 172-186), New York, 2018. | SCRIPTS
Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Mirko Gelsomini, and Franca Garzotto. “Building Community: Report on KidRec Workshop on Children and Recommender Systems at RecSys 2017”.
In ACM RecSys, 2017.
Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiu-Kai Ng. “Using Online Data Sources to Make Query Suggestions for Children”. In Journal of Web Intelligence (Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 303-323), IOS Press, 2017.
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Maria Soledad Pera, Nevena Dragovic, and Jerry Alan Fails. “Online Searching and Learning YUM and Other tools for Children and Teachers”. In Information Retrieval
Journal (Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 524-545), 2017.
Oghenemaro Anuyah, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, David McNeill and Maria Soledad Pera. “Can Readability Enhance Recommendations on Community Question Answering Sites?”. In Proceedings of the ACM
Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys) - Poster, Como, Italy, August 2017.
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Guadalupe Guereta, Santiago Diez, Martin Bianculli Martin, Alejandro Gonzalez, Carlos Flury, Franco Ferrari, Mariano Baudena, Guillermo Leale, and Maria Soledad Pera.
“Comparative analysis on text distance measures applied to Community Question Answering data”. Congreso Nacional de Ingenieria Informatica (CONAIISI), 2017.
Michael D. Ekstrand and Maria Soledad Pera. "The Demographics of Cool: Popularity and Recommender Performance for Different Groups of Users". In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys) - Poster, Como, Italy, August 2017.
Deepa Mallela, Dirk Ahlers, and Maria Soledad Pera. “Mining Twitter Features for Event Summarization and Rating”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence (pp. 615-622), 2017.
Hoda Mehrpouyan, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. “Measuring Personality for Automatic Elicitation of Privacy Preferences”. In the IEEE Symposium on Privacy-Aware Computing (IEEE PAC)
Conference (pp. 84-95), 2017.
Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. “Exploiting Reviews to Generate Personalized and Justified Recommendations to Guide Users' Selections”. In the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research
Society (FLAIRS) Conference (pp. 661-664), 2017.
Jason Hall and Maria Soledad Pera. “UBR: A Book Search - Recommender Hybrid”. In the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference (pp. 665-669), 2017.
Sean MacLachlan, Nevena Dragovic, Stacey Donohue and Maria Soledad Pera. "One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Helping Users Find Events from Multiple Perspectives". In Proceedings of the ACM RecSys
Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism, Boston, USA, September 2016.
Stacey Donohue, Nevena Dragovic, and Maria Soledad Pera. "Anything Fun Going On? A Simple Wizard to Avoid the Cold-Start Problem for Event Recommenders". In Proceedings of the ACM RecSys Workshop on
Recommenders in Tourism, Boston, USA, September 2016.
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu and Maria Soledad Pera. "Is Readability a Valuable Signal for Hashtag Recommendations?". In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys 2016) - Poster,
Boston, USA, September 2016.
Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. "Genre Prediction to Inform the Recommendation Process". In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys 2016) - Poster, Boston, USA, September 2016.
Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Nevena Dragovic, and Maria Soledad Pera. "Finding, Understanding and Learning: Making Information Discovery Tasks Useful for Children and Teachers". In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Search as Learning.
Pisa, Italy, July 2016.
Nevena Dragovic, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, and Maria Soledad Pera. "Is Sven Seven?: A Search Intent Module for Children". In Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference (pp. 885-888), Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016.
Joel Denning, Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiu-Kai Ng. "A readability level prediction tool for K-12 books". In Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 550–565), 2015.
Meher Shaikh, Maria Soledad Pera, and Yiu-Kai Ng. "Suggesting Simple and
Comprehensive Queries to Elementary-Grade Children". In Proceedings
of the IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'15) (pp. 252-259), Singapore,
December 6-9, 2015.
Nevena Dragovic and Maria Soledad Pera. "Exploiting Reviews to Guide Users’
Selections". In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
(ACM RecSys 2015) - Poster, Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015.
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng. "A Recommendation-Based Book-Exchange
System Without Using Wish Lists". In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference
on Recommender Systems (ACM RecSys 2015) - Poster, Vienna, Austria, September 16-20,
2015.
Shahrzad Karimi and Maria Soledad Pera. "Recommendations to enhance Children
Web Searches". In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
(ACM RecSys 2015) - Poster, Vienna, Austria, September 16-20, 2015.
Maria Soledad Pera and Yiu-Kai Ng. "Analyzing Book-Related Features to
Recommend Books for Emergent Readers". In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference
on Hypertext and Social Media (ACM HT) (pp. 221-230), Cyprus, September
1-4, 2015.
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