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# KaRS 2024
Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems 2024

### Proceedings of the Sixth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop
co-located with 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)

### Bari, Italy, October 18th, 2024.

Edited by

### Vito Walter Anelli *
Pierpaolo Basile **
Tommaso Di Noia *
Francesco Maria Donini ***
Antonio Ferrara *
Cataldo Musto **
Fedelucio Narducci *
Azzurra Ragone **
Markus Zanker ****

* Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
** University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
*** University of Tuscia, Italy
**** Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

## Table of Contents

- Sixth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop (KaRS 2024) 1-10
  Vito Walter Anelli, Pierpaolo Basile, Tommaso Di Noia, Francesco Maria Donini, Antonio Ferrara, Cataldo Musto, Fedelucio Narducci, Azzurra Ragone, Markus Zanker
  Summary: There were 7 papers submitted for peer-review to these workshops. Out of these, 7 papers were accepted for this volume, 4 as regular papers and 3 as short papers.

### Session 1: Content-based and Knowledge-aware RSs

- The Effect of Semantic Knowledge Graph Richness on Embedding Based Recommender Systems 11-20
  Daan Di Scala, Xu Wang, Christopher Brewster
- Empowering Shilling Attacks with Katz and Exclusivity-based Relatedness 21-42
  Felice Antonio Merra, Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio
- Using Semantic-based Adaptive Relevance Prediction to Enhance Entity Recommendation for Personal Knowledge Assistance 43-55
  Mahta Bakhshizadeh, Heiko Maus, Andreas Dengel

### Session 2: LLMs for Recommendation

- Can We Integrate Items Into Models? Knowledge Editing To Align LLMs With Product Catalogs (short paper) 56-65
  Ahmadou Wagne, Julia Neidhardt

### Keynote

- The Dagstuhl CAFE Framework for the Evaluation of Conversational Agents
  Nicola Ferro

### Session 3: Conversational RSs

- Adapting Sequential Recommender Models to Content Recommendation in Chat Data using Non-Item Page-Models 66-84
  Albin Zehe, Elisabeth Fischer, Jonas Kaiser, Toni Wagner, Andreas Hotho
- Conversational Recommender Systems based on Extracting Implicit Preferences with Large Language Models (short paper) 85-93
  Woo-Seok Kim, Wooseung Kang, Hye-Jin Jeong, Suwon Lee, Chie Hoon Song, Sang-Min Choi
- A Social Robot as a Meal-Time Companion for Elderly People (short paper) 94-102
  Berardina De Carolis, Davide Di Pierro, Stefano Ferilli, Davide Lofrese, Corrado Loglisci, Giuseppe Palestra

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