Workshop on social media for personalization and search (SoMePeAS)
Ludovico Boratto, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Giovanni Stilo · UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari) · 2017
Social media platforms have become powerful tools to collect the preferences of the users and get to know them more. Indeed, in order to build profiles about what the users like or dislike, a system does not only have to rely on explicitly given preferences (e.g., ratings) or on implicitly collected data (e.g., from the browsing sessions). In the middle, there lie opinions and preferences expressed through likes, textual comments, and posted content. Being able to exploit social media to mine user behavior and extract additional information leads to improvements in the accuracy of personalization and search technologies, and to better targeted services to the users. In this workshop, we aim to collect novel ideas in this field and to provide a common ground for researchers working in this area.