Extra: Explaining team recommendation in networks

Qinghai Zhou, Liangyue Li, Nan Cao, Norbou Buchler, Hanghang Tong

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Abstract

State-of-the-art in network science of teams offers effective recommendation methods to answer questions like who is the best replacement, what is the best team expansion strategy, but lacks intuitive ways to explain why the optimization algorithm gives the specific recommendation for a given team optimization scenario. To tackle this problem, we develop an interactive prototype system, Extra, as the first step towards addressing such a sense-making challenge, through the lens of the underlying network where teams embed, to explain the team recommendation results. The main advantages are (1) Algorithm efficacy: we propose an effective and fast algorithm to explain random walk graph kernel, the central technique for networked team recommendation; (2) Intuitive visual explanation: we present intuitive visual analysis of the recommendation results, which can help users better understand the rationality of the underlying team recommendation algorithm.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRecSys 2018 - 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages492-493
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450359016
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 27 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2018 - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: Oct 2 2018Oct 7 2018

Publication series

NameRecSys 2018 - 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Conference

Conference12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period10/2/1810/7/18

Keywords

  • Random Walk Graph Kernel
  • Team Recommendation Explanation
  • Visualization

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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