2022

Measuring "Why" in Recommender Systems: a Comprehensive Survey on the Evaluation of Explainable Recommendation

Chen, Xu, Zhang, Yongfeng, Wen, Ji-Rong

Understand

Explainable recommendation has shown its great advantages for improving recommendation persuasiveness, user satisfaction, system transparency, among others.

  • A fundamental problem of explainable recommendation is how to evaluate the explanations.
  • In the past few years, various evaluation strategies have been proposed.
  • However, they are scattered in different papers, and there lacks a systematic and detailed comparison between them.

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