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We are living in an era abounding in data and information. And we human beings are ever-hungry for acquiring knowledge. However, the sheer masses of information surrounding us are making the task of dissecting noise from signal, or relevant from irrelevant information, virtually impossible.
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Ziegler, CN. (2013). Introduction. In: Social Web Artifacts for Boosting Recommenders. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 487. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00527-0_1
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