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Incorporating Knowledge and Content Information to Boost News Recommendation

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Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2020)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 12430))

Abstract

News recommendation, which aims to help users find the news they are interested in, is essential for online news platforms to alleviate the information overload problem. News is full of textual information with some knowledge entities, so recent studies try to leverage knowledge graphs (KGs) as side information to better model user preferences over news. However, most knowledge-enhanced methods assume that users are interested in the knowledge entities that occurred in the news. In real scenarios, users may like the news because of the news content rather than the knowledge entities. To take both knowledge and content factors into consideration, we propose a news recommendation method, namely knowledge and content aware network for news recommendation (KCNR). KCNR represents user and news in terms of knowledge and content, then it predicts the weight of user preferences on knowledge and content via a user preferences prediction mechanism. Besides, based on the weight of user preferences on knowledge, it extends user preferences along with entities in knowledge graphs. Experiments on two real-world datasets show that our approach achieves significant improvements over several state-of-the-art baselines in news recommendation.

This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC0831900), Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61672311, 61532011) and Tsinghua University Guoqiang Research Institute. And this work is partly supported by the Tsinghua-Sogou Tiangong Institute for Intelligent Computing. This work is also funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and Dr Weizhi Ma has been supported by Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar Program.

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    https://www.news.sogou.com/.

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    https://www.douban.com/.

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Wang, Z. et al. (2020). Incorporating Knowledge and Content Information to Boost News Recommendation. In: Zhu, X., Zhang, M., Hong, Y., He, R. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing. NLPCC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60450-9_35

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