KaRS 2022
Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems 2022

Table of Contents

• Fourth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop (KaRS 2022) 1-5
  Vito Walter Anelli, Pierpaolo Basile, Gerard De Melo, Francesco Maria Donini, Antonio Ferrara, Cataldo Musto, Fedelucio Narducci, Azzurra Ragone, Markus Zanker
  Summary: There were 17 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 12 papers were accepted for this volume, 7 as regular papers and 5 as short papers.

Session 1

• INFACT: An Online Human Evaluation Framework for Conversational Recommendation (short paper) 6-11
  Ahtsham Manzoor, Dietmar Jannach
• Combining IGA and KG for Serendipitous Learning Contents Recommendation (short paper) 12-17
  Emmanuel Ayedoun, Satoko Inoue, Hiroshi Takenouchi, Masataka Tokumaru
• Are User-Generated Item Reviews Actually Beneficial for Recommendation? (short paper) 17-22
  Tzu-Hua Kao, Lea Dahm, Tobias Eichinger
• Revisiting the performance evaluation of knowledge-aware recommender systems: are we making progress? (short paper) 22-28
  Marina Ananyeva, Oleg Lashinin, Maria Kuznetsova

Keynote

• Next-Generation Intelligent Assistants for AR/VR Devices
  Xin Luna Dong

Session 2

• Nudging Towards Health in a Conversational Food Recommender System Using Multi-Modal Interactions and Nutrition Labels 29-35
  Giovanni Castiglia, Ayoub El Majjodi, Federica Calò, Yashar Deldjoo, Fedelucio Narducci, Alain Starke, Christoph Trattner
• A Nonparametric Contextual Bandit with Arm-level Eligibility Control for Customer Service Routing 36-44
  Ruofeng Wen, Wenjun Zeng, Yi Liu
• Combining Unstructured Content and Knowledge Graphs into Recommendation Datasets (short paper) 45-52
  Weizhe Lin, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Zhilin Wang, Bill Byrne, Daxin Jiang
• Transformer-Empowered Content-Aware Collaborative Filtering 53-64
  Weizhe Lin, Linjun Shou, Ming Gong, Jian Pei, Zhilin Wang, Bill Byrne, Daxin Jiang

Session 3

• Optimizing Semantic Enrichment of Biomedical Content through Knowledge Sharing 65-72
  Asim Abbas, Steve Mbouadeu, Avinash Bisram, Nadeem Iqbal, Fazel Keshtkar, Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari
• INSPIRED2: An Improved Dataset for Sociable Conversational Recommendation 73-80
  Ahtsham Manzoor, Dietmar Jannach
• Meta-Intents in Conversational Recommender Systems 81-90
  Yuan Ma, Tim Donkers, Timm Kleemann, Jürgen Ziegler
• Performance Predictors for Conversational Fashion Recommendation 91-100
  Maria Vlachou, Craig Macdonald