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# KaRS 2018
Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems 2018

### Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems 2018
co-located with 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018)

### Vancouver, Canada, October 7, 2018.

Edited by

### Vito Walter Anelli *
Tommaso Di Noia *
Pasquale Lops **
Cataldo Musto **
Markus Zanker ***
Pierpaolo Basile **
Derek Bridge ****
Fedelucio Narducci **

* Polytechnic University of Bari, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, 70126 Bari, Italy
** University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Computer Science , 70126 Bari, Italy
*** Free University of Bozen, Faculty of Computer Science, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
**** University College Cork, Department of Computer Science, Western Road, Cork, Ireland

## Table of Contents

### Keynote

- Music Recommendation System Unplugged (keynote)
  Tao Ye, Vito Ostuni

### Session 1:

- Deriving Item Features Relevance from Collaborative Domain Knowledge 1-4
  Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Alberto Gasparin, Paolo Cremonesi
- Knowledge Graph-based Weighting Strategies for a Scholarly Paper Recommendation Scenario 5-8
  Rubén Manrique, Olga Marino
- Computing Recommendations via a Knowledge Graph-aware Autoencoder 9-15
  Vito Bellini, Angelo Schiavone, Tommaso Di Noia, Azzurra Ragone, Eugenio Di Sciascio
- Knowledge-aware Recommender System for Software Development 16-22
  Phuong T. Nguyen, Juri Di Rocco, Davide Di Ruscio
- Evaluating Stereotype and Non-Stereotype Recommender Systems 23-28
  Nourah A. ALRossais, Daniel Kudenko
- A Domain-independent Framework for building Conversational Recommender Systems 29-34
  Fedelucio Narducci, Pierpaolo Basile, Andrea Iovine, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro
- "I'm looking for something like ...": Combining Narratives and Example Items for Narrative-driven Book Recommendation 35-43
  Toine Bogers, Marijn Koolen

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