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20182020
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9 papers

cs.IR2020

Explainable Recommendations via Attentive Multi-Persona Collaborative Filtering

Oren Barkan, Yonatan Fuchs, Avi Caciularu +1

Two main challenges in recommender systems are modeling users with heterogeneous taste, and providing explainable recommendations. In this paper, we propose the neural Attentive Mu…

cs.IR2020

RecoBERT: A Catalog Language Model for Text-Based Recommendations

Itzik Malkiel, Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu +3

Language models that utilize extensive self-supervised pre-training from unlabeled text, have recently shown to significantly advance the state-of-the-art performance in a variety…

cs.CL2020

Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation Learning

Oren Barkan, Idan Rejwan, Avi Caciularu +1

This paper presents the Bayesian Hierarchical Words Representation (BHWR) learning algorithm. BHWR facilitates Variational Bayes word representation learning combined with semantic…

cs.CL2020

Paraphrasing vs Coreferring: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Yehudit Meged, Avi Caciularu, Vered Shwartz +1

We study the potential synergy between two different NLP tasks, both confronting predicate lexical variability: identifying predicate paraphrases, and event coreference resolution.…

cs.IR2020

Attentive Item2Vec: Neural Attentive User Representations

Oren Barkan, Avi Caciularu, Ori Katz +1

Factorization methods for recommender systems tend to represent users as a single latent vector. However, user behavior and interests may change in the context of the recommendatio…

cs.IT2020

perm2vec: Graph Permutation Selection for Decoding of Error Correction Codes using Self-Attention

Nir Raviv, Avi Caciularu, Tomer Raviv +2

Error correction codes are an integral part of communication applications, boosting the reliability of transmission. The optimal decoding of transmitted codewords is the maximum li…