Campus Digest

Computer Science staff and student win Best Student Paper Award in UMAP 2015

14 Jul 2015

Ms Carrie Wu (right) and Dr Chen Li, coauthors of the award winning paper Ms Carrie Wu (right) and Dr Chen Li, coauthors of the award winning paper
Ms Carrie Wu (right) and Dr Chen Li, coauthors of the award winning paper

 

Ms Carrie Wu, PhD student and Dr Chen Li, Assistant Professor, of the Department of Computer Science, won The James Chen Best Student Paper Award for their outstanding paper entitled “Implicit Acquisition of User Personality for Augmenting Movie Recommendations” at the 23rd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015) held in Dublin, Ireland on 3 July 2015.

 

Their paper was one of the two best papers selected from among 112 submissions to the Conference. Carrie said, “I have learnt a lot about tackling practical problems from the users’ perspective.”

 

The award-winning paper presented an approach to derive users’ personality implicitly from their behaviour in selecting movies, and to further use the derived personality profile to make personalised film recommendations. Their research output indicates an effective way of inferring users’ personality and operating personality-based recommender systems in an online environment.