Master thesis student

Email: shadi.zumor@stud.uni-due.de

Thesis topic: Opening Black-Box Interest Models for Transparent Recommendation

Related project:  RIMA

Supervisor: M.Sc Mouadh Guesmi, Dr. Arham Muslim 

Thesis duration: 02/2020 - 08/2020

Description

Recommendation systems are essential components of our daily life. Today, intelligent recommendation systems are used in many Web-based systems. As recommender systems impact people’s lives in increasingly profound ways, there is a growing need to ensure that the users understand and trust these systems. This has led to the increasing interest in explainable recommender systems.

We aim through this thesis to develop a Web application which uses extracted keywords from research papers to build a user interest profile/model and recommend tweets, Twitter users, papers, and researchers. Further, the application will provide a set of features to explain to the user why certain items are recommended, by opening the black-box user model.