Tuesday Program
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 11:00 Session I
Robert Moskovitch (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Temporal Conceptualization Analytics
Pasquale Lops (The University of Bari Aldo Moro): Generating Natural Language Explanations for Recommender Systems
Nadeem Bader (The University of Haifa): Exploring Emotions in Online Movie Reviews
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session II
Inbal Ronen (IBM Haifa Research Lab): Recommendations for raising your social eminence in the enterprise
Ronny Lempel (Outbrain): Personalization is a Two-Way Street
Hagit Ben Shoshan (The University of Haifa): Create and Identify users’ signature in social media
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session III
Giuseppe Sansonetti (Roma Tre University): Bag-of-signals: a novel user model for time-aware personalized systems
Alain Hertz (POLYTECHNIQUE MONTRÉAL): Resolving sets for multi-attribute recommender systems
Renana Gonen (The University of Haifa): Optimizing message propagation over social network while considering users' personal availability.
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session IV
Fabio Gasparetti (Roma Tre University): Improving News Recommendation by Monitoring the Perception of News Content on Social Networks: A Methodology
Shaked Bar (Outbrain): Profile-based Personalization Algorithms for Content Recommender Systems
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion
Should we, and how do we go beyond matrix factorization in recommender systems?
19:30 – 21:30 Evening
Free evening – downtown Haifa – enjoy Haifa’s events