Examining the merits of feature-specific similarity functions in the news domain using human judgments
Alain D. Starke,
Vegard R. Solberg,
Sebastian Øverhaug
et al.
Abstract:Online news article recommendations are typically of the ‘more like this’ type, generated by similarity functions. Across three studies, we examined the representativeness of different similarity functions for news item retrieval, by comparing them to human judgments of similarity. In Study 1 ($$N=401$$
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