Towards explainable educational recommendation through path reasoning methods

N Afreen, G Balloccu, L Boratto, G Fenu… - CEUR WORKSHOP …, 2023 - iris.unica.it
Current recommender systems in education lack explainability and interpretability, making it
challenging for stakeholders to understand how the recommended content relates to them …

[PDF][PDF] Knowledge-aware Recommendations: Exploring the Interplay between Utility, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Methods.

G Balloccu, L Boratto, C Cancedda, G Fenu, M Marras - IIR, 2023 - ceur-ws.org
Abstract Adopting Knowledge Graphs (KGs) in recommender systems has engendered the
emergence of sophisticated techniques, such as path reasoning, designed to navigate KGs …

Finding Paths for Explainable MOOC Recommendation: A Learner Perspective

J Frej, N Shah, M Knezevic, T Nazaretsky… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The increasing availability of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has created a
necessity for personalized course recommendation systems. These systems often combine …

A Survey on Explainable Course Recommendation Systems

B Ma, T Yang, B Ren - International Conference on Human-Computer …, 2024 - Springer
An emerging challenge in course recommendation systems is the need to explain clearly to
students the rationale behind specific course recommendations. Consequently, recent …

Knowledge is power, understanding is impact: Utility and beyond goals, explanation quality, and fairness in path reasoning recommendation

G Balloccu, L Boratto, C Cancedda, G Fenu… - … on Information Retrieval, 2023 - Springer
Path reasoning is a notable recommendation approach that models high-order user-product
relations, based on a Knowledge Graph (KG). This approach can extract reasoning paths …

Educational explainable recommender usage and its effectiveness in high school summer vacation assignment

K Takami, Y Dai, B Flanagan, H Ogata - LAK22: 12th International …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Explainable recommendations, which provide explanations about why an item is
recommended, help to improve the transparency, persuasiveness, and trustworthiness …

Explainable meta-path based recommender systems

T Markchom, H Liang, J Ferryman - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Meta-paths have been popularly used to provide explainability in recommendations.
Although long/complicated meta-paths could represent complex user-item connectivity, they …

Attention is not the only choice: counterfactual reasoning for path-based explainable recommendation

Y Li, X Sun, H Chen, S Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compared with only pursuing recommendation accuracy, the explainability of a
recommendation model has drawn more attention in recent years. Many graph-based …

Orienting students to course recommendations using three types of explanation

R Yu, Z Pardos, H Chau, P Brusilovsky - … of the 29th ACM conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
An emerging challenge in course recommender systems is explaining to students why they
have been recommended particular courses. In the context of a university, it can be valuable …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring the design space for explainable course recommendation systems in university environments

B Ma, M Lu, Y Taniguchi, S Konomi - Companion Proceedings of …, 2020 - researchgate.net
A course recommendation system can assist students in finding suitable courses through a
personalized approach. Showing why the course is recommended serves as a bridge …