Research

Publications & Preprints

2025

  • Disentangling Likes and Dislikes in Personalized Generative Explainable Recommendation
    Ryotaro Shimizu, Takashi Wada, Yu Wang, Johannes Kruse, Sean O’Brien, Sai Htaung Kham, Linxin Song, Yuya Yoshikawa, Yuki Saito, Fugee Tsung, Masayuki Goto, Julian McAuley
    ACM Web Conference 2025 (WWW ‘25)
    Preprint

2024

  • RecSys Challenge 2024: Balancing Accuracy and Editorial Values in News Recommendations
    Johannes Kruse, Kasper Lindskow, Saikishore Kalloori, Marco Polignano, Claudio Pomo, Abhishek Srivastava, Anshuk Uppal, Michael Riis Andersen, Jes Frellsen
    ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ‘24)
    Paper

  • EB-NeRD A Large-Scale Dataset for News Recommendation
    Johannes Kruse, Kasper Lindskow, Saikishore Kalloori, Marco Polignano, Claudio Pomo, Abhishek Srivastava, Anshuk Uppal, Michael Riis Andersen, Jes Frellsen
    ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSysChallenge ‘24)
    Paper

  • “I must have clicked on something” - Users´ Experiences and Evaluations of Personalized News Recommender Systems
    Árni Már Einarsson, Elisabetta Petrucci, Jannie Møller Hartley, Johannes Kruse
    Journalism Practice
    (Accepted/In press - 3 Sept 2024)

  • Report on NORMalize: The Second Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems
    • Alain Starke, Sanne Vrijenhoek, Lien Michiels, Johannes Kruse, Nava Tintarev
    CEUR Workshop Proceedings
    Paper

2023

  • Creating the next generation of news experience on ekstrabladet.dk with recommender systems
    Johannes Kruse, Kasper Lindskow, Michael Riis Andersen, Jes Frellsen.
    ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ‘23)
    Paper

  • Report on NORMalize: The First Workshop on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems
    Sanne Vrijenhoek, Lien Michiels, Johannes Kruse, Alain Starke, Jordi Viader Guerrero, Nava Tintarev
    CEUR Workshop Proceedings
    Paper

2019

  • Privacy-by-Design – Technical Report
    Johannes Kruse and Lars Kai Hansen
    The Danish Council of Ethics: Statement on health wearables and big data
    Paper

Workshops, Tutorials, Demos & Others

  • RecSys Challenge 2024: Balancing Accuracy and Editorial Values in News Recommendations
    Johannes Kruse, Kasper Lindskow, Anshuk Uppal, Michael Riis Andersen, Jes Frellsen
    ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ‘24)
    Workshop

  • NORMalize: The Second Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems
    Sanne Vrijenhoek, Lien Michiels, Johannes Kruse, Alain Starke, Nava Tintarev
    ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ‘24)
    Paper | Workshop

  • Nordic Personalization Workshop
    Alan Said, Toine Bogers, Christoph Trattner, Simen Eide, Benjamin Kille, Bruce Ferwerda, Johannes Kruse
    Workshop

  • NORMalize: A Tutorial on the Normative Design and Evaluation of Information Access Systems
    Johannes Kruse, Lien Michiels, Alain Starke, Nava Tintarev, Sanne Vrijenhoek
    Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ‘24)
    Paper | Workshop

  • NORMalize: The First Workshop on Normative Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems
    Sanne Vrijenhoek, Lien Michiels, Johannes Kruse, Alain Starke, Jordi Viader Guerrero, Nava Tintarev
    ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ‘23)
    Paper | Workshop

Invited Talks

  • AI at JP/Politikens Media Group
    Invited talk at DN Media Group. 2025.

  • RecSys ‘24: Balancing Accuracy and Editorial Values in News Recommendations
    Invited talk at Nordic AI Journalism. 2025.

  • Open-Sourcing Datasets and Designing Machine Learning Competitions
    Invited talk at University of California San Diego. 2024.

  • Creating the next generation of news experience at Ekstra Bladet with Artificial Intelligence
    Nordic Personalisation Day. 2023. Video Presentation

  • Do Recommendation Systems Generalize Across News Domains?
    Invited talk at The University of Melbourne. 2022.

Awards

  • Best Use of AI in Revenue Strategy
    Digital Media Worldwide 2024
    Project Overview

  • Best Use of AI in Revenue Strategy
    Digital Media Awards Europe 2024
    Project Overview

These awards reflect the combined efforts and accomplishments of our talented team at Platform Intellenge in News (PIN).

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