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BReK12: a book recommender for K-12 users

Published: 12 August 2012 Publication History

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Ideally, students in K-12 grade levels can turn to book recommenders to locate books that match their interests. Existing book recommenders, however, fail to take into account the readability levels of their users, and hence their recommendations may be unsuitable for the users. To address this issue, we introduce BReK12, a recommender that targets K-12 users and prioritizes the reading level of its users in suggesting books of interest. Empirical studies conducted using the Bookcrossing dataset show that BReK12 outperforms a number of existing recommenders (developed for general users) in identifying books appealing to K-12 users.

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SIGIR '12: Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
August 2012
1236 pages
ISBN:9781450314725
DOI:10.1145/2348283

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Published: 12 August 2012

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  1. book
  2. k-12
  3. readability
  4. recommendation system

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  • (2014)SimSeerXProceedings of the 2014 ACM symposium on Document engineering10.1145/2644866.2644895(143-146)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2014
  • (2014)Classifying and ranking search engine results as potential sources of plagiarismProceedings of the 2014 ACM symposium on Document engineering10.1145/2644866.2644879(97-106)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2014
  • (2012)Personalized recommendations on books for K-12 readersProceedings of the fifth ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories and complementary media10.1145/2390116.2390124(11-12)Online publication date: 29-Oct-2012

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