A survey on session-based recommender systems

S Wang, L Cao, Y Wang, QZ Sheng, MA Orgun… - ACM Computing …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems (RSs) have been playing an increasingly important role for informed
consumption, services, and decision-making in the overloaded information era and digitized …

Sequential recommender systems: challenges, progress and prospects

S Wang, L Hu, Y Wang, L Cao, QZ Sheng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019‏ - arxiv.org
The emerging topic of sequential recommender systems has attracted increasing attention in
recent years. Different from the conventional recommender systems including collaborative …

RLAS‐BIABC: a reinforcement learning‐based answer selection using the bert model boosted by an improved ABC algorithm

H Gharagozlou, J Mohammadzadeh… - Computational …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Answer selection (AS) is a critical subtask of the open‐domain question answering (QA)
problem. The present paper proposes a method called RLAS‐BIABC for AS, which is …

Enhancing sequential recommendation with contrastive generative adversarial network

S Ni, W Zhou, J Wen, L Hu, S Qiao - Information Processing & Management, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Sequential recommendation models a user's historical sequence to predict future items.
Existing studies utilize deep learning methods and contrastive learning for data …

Chinese medical question answer selection via hybrid models based on CNN and GRU

Y Zhang, W Lu, W Ou, G Zhang, X Zhang… - Multimedia tools and …, 2020‏ - Springer
Question answer selection in the Chinese medical field is very challenging since it requires
effective text representations to capture the complex semantic relationships between …

Data science for next-generation recommender systems

S Wang, Y Wang, F Sivrikaya, S Albayrak… - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - Springer
Data science has been the foundation of recommender systems for a long time. Over the
past few decades, various recommender systems have been developed using different data …

Representation learning with multi-level attention for activity trajectory similarity computation

A Liu, Y Zhang, X Zhang, G Liu, Y Zhang… - … on Knowledge and …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive trajectory data stem from the prevalence of equipment-supporting GPS and
wireless communication technology. Especially, activity trajectory from Location-based …

Concept representation by learning explicit and implicit concept couplings

W Lu, Y Zhang, S Wang, H Huang, Q Liu… - IEEE Intelligent …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generating the precise semantic representation of a word or concept is a fundamental task
in natural language processing. Recent studies which incorporate semantic knowledge into …

Hierarchical attentive transaction embedding with intra-and inter-transaction dependencies for next-item recommendation

S Wang, L Cao, L Hu, S Berkovsky… - IEEE Intelligent …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A transaction-based recommender system (TBRS) aims to predict the next item by modeling
dependencies in transactional data. Generally, two kinds of dependencies considered are …

Modelling local and global dependencies for next-item recommendations

N Wang, S Wang, Y Wang, QZ Sheng… - Web Information Systems …, 2020‏ - Springer
Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) aim at predicting the next item by modelling
the complex dependencies within and across sessions. Most of the existing SBRSs make …