Workshop Program

INRA 2024 workshop will be held on 18th October 2024. It will be a half-day workshop.

09:00 - 09:10 Introduction
09:10 - 10:30 Paper Presentations
09:10 - 09:20 "Empowering Editors: How Automated Recommendations Support Editorial Article Curation" By Anastasiia Klimashevskaia, Mehdi Elahi, Dietmar Jannach, Christoph Trattner and Simen Buodd (Short paper)
09:20 - 09:35 "A Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Supporting Editorial Article Selection" By Bilal Mahmood, Mehdi Elahi, Farhad Vadiee, Samia Touileb and Lubos Steskal (Long paper)
09:35 - 09:45 "RADio-: a Simplified Codebase for Evaluating Normative Diversity in Recommender Systems" By Sanne Vrijenhoek (Short paper)
09:45 - 09:55 "Simulating Real-World News Consumption: Deep Q-Learning for Diverse User-Centric Slate Recommendations" By Aayush Roy, Elias Tragos, Aonghus Lawlor and Neil Hurley (Short paper)
09:55 - 10:05 "Enhancing Prediction Models with Reinforcement Learning" By Karol Radziszewski and Piotr Ociepka (Short paper)
10:05 - 10:20 "Non-Stationary Multi-Armed Bandits for News Recommendations" By Noah Daniëls and Bart Goethals (Long paper)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Paper Presentations
11:00 - 11:15 "Peeling Back the Layers: An In-Depth Evaluation of Encoder Architectures in Neural News Recommenders"
By Andreea Iana, Goran Glavaš and Heiko Paulheim (Long paper)
11:15 - 11:30 "Negativity Sells? Using an LLM to Affectively Reframe News Articles in a Recommender System" By Jia Hua Jeng, Gloria Kasangu, Alain D. Starke, Erik Knudsen and Christoph Trattner (Long paper)
11:30 - 12:25 Interactive session
12:25 - 12:30 Conclusion


Interactive Session

At the workshop we will have an interactive session where participants are welcomed to discuss their ideas. We invite everyone attending the workshop to propose ideas or suggestions that they will like to discuss with other participants. Please use this form to propose topics for the interactive session of this workshop. Submission deadline for topics is 25th September (Closed).