Representing the Filter Bubble: Towards a Model to Diversification in News

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Authors: Gabriel Machado Lunardi

Tags: 2019, conceptual modeling

Filtering techniques like recommender systems are commonly employed to help people selecting items that best fit their conceptual needs. Although many benefits, recommender systems can put the user inside a filter-bubble given their high focus on similarity measures. This effect tends to limit user experiences, discovering new things, and so on. In the news domain, filter-bubbles are quite critical once they are means of changing people opinions. Therefore we propose a diversification approach to pop the bubble through a representation model based on points of view.

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