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Exploring the Sentiment Patterns of Clustered COVID-19 News Articles on Mask Requirements: A Comparison with User Comments
Author: Lukas Burtscher Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt, Co-Supervisor: Thomas E. Kolb Abstract Während die COVID-19-Pandemie weiterhin die Welt heimsucht, ist es für EntscheidungsträgerInnen und öffentliche GesundheitsbeamtInnen entscheidend, die öffentliche Stimmung und Einstellung gegenüber den Maßnahmen zur Kontrolle ihrer Ausbreitung zu verstehen. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Entwicklung der Stimmung bezüglich COVID-19-Maskenanforderungen von Januar 2020 bis Dezember 2021…
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Diversity in News Recommendations- Towards a Broader Perspective on Diversity-Aware-Recommender-Systems and Their Influence on Users
Author: Linda Basso Supervisor: Irina Nalis-Neuner, Co-Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt Abstract All of us encounter recommender systems (RS) regularly by using social media, google, online-shopping, streaming music, reading the news online, etc. The interaction with these information filtering systems is part of our everyday lives. Thus, they have an influence on their users’ behavior, their decision…
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Exploring group fairness in news media recommendations: Algorithms, metrics, and grouping
Author: Blake Huebner Supervisor: Julia Neidhardt, Co-Supervisor: Thomas E. Kolb Abstract Beyond accuracy metrics, such as fairness and diversity, have become widely studied topics in recommender systems. Improving these metrics is important not only from an ethical and legal perspective, but can also improve overall user satisfaction. Although fairness and diversity metrics are widely discussed,…