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A Multidimensional Paper Recommender: Experiments and Evaluations
July/August 2009 (vol. 13 no. 4)
pp. 34-41
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Tiffany Y. Tang, Gordan McCalla, "A Multidimensional Paper Recommender: Experiments and Evaluations," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 34-41, July/August, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2009.73,
author = {Tiffany Y. Tang and Gordan McCalla},
title = {A Multidimensional Paper Recommender: Experiments and Evaluations},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {13},
number = {4},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2009},
pages = {34-41},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2009.73},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Tiffany Y. Tang, Konkuk University
Gordan McCalla, University of Saskatchewan
Paper recommender systems in the e-learning domain must consider pedagogical factors, such as a paper's overall popularity and learner background knowledge — factors that are less important in commercial book or movie recommender systems. This article reports evaluations of a 6D paper recommender. Experimental results from a human subject study of learner preferences suggest that pedagogical factors help to overcome a serious cold-start problem (not having enough papers or learners to start the recommender system) and help the system more appropriately support users as they learn.

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Index Terms:
Paper recommender systems, e-learning, information filtering, Internet
Citation:
Tiffany Y. Tang, Gordan McCalla, "A Multidimensional Paper Recommender: Experiments and Evaluations," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 34-41, July-Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/MIC.2009.73
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