Suggested Reading: Advances in News Recommendation

Major news sites like Google News or Yahoo! News as well as social media sites like Facebook or Twitter provide their users with personalized recommendations. These recommendations are tailored to the users’ individual reading preferences and are based on advanced machine learning techniques. Researchers at AAU Klagenfurt, TU Dortmund, and the University of Antwerp have recently published a survey on intelligent techniques and open-sourced a software framework for benchmarking such algorithms in a realistic setting.