Evaluating the Performance of Different Models for Children’s Book Recommendations

Recently, a few children-centered recommendation systems have been created and evaluated. How- ever, these systems required user interaction to cre- ate ground truth to evaluate the result. This research aims to compare some of the traditional recommen- dation models and explore which trait could impact the recommendation process most for...

Trait Analysis to Facilitate Children’s Books Recommender Systems: Extracting perspective and sentiment traits from book fulltext and descriptions

Recommender systems are a useful tool for match- ing readers with books. However, the lack of user data from children, both due to privacy concerns as well as a low incentive to leave reviews, results in existing systems proving inadequate at recom- mending to the youth. It has been shown that chil- dren have a different relation regarding...

Metadata, the undiscovered treasure box for book recommender systems for children: What traits can be inferred from book’s descriptive and structural metadata which could support the designers of books recommender systems for children?

This study examines traits that may be derived from book metadata and identifies statistically signifi- cant patterns and trends in order to assist recom- mender system designers for children’s books in selecting the most important traits to take into ac- count. This research focuses on descriptive such as publish year and structural metadata...

The Words are not Enough: An Investigation into the Viability of Textual Complexity as a Feature for Recommendation Systems

Reading is an essential skill for any child to learn, and finding enjoyment in it can greatly contribute to developing proper reading comprehension. Finding the books they like could prove to be difficult. Utilizing collaborative filtering recommender systems to recommend books to children is a tricky task, the lack of user feedback makes it...

Covering Covers: Characterization Of Visual Elements Regarding Sleeves

The cover of a children's book could play a crucial role in attracting the attention of young readers and influencing their decision to pick up and read the book. In this study, we aim to identify the factors that contribute to the appeal of children's book covers. Given that the target audience for children's books changes as children grow...