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11.6 Conclusion

In this chapter we presented an overview of recommender systems and dif-

ferent solutions to solve the information and interaction overload problems on

the Web. We used three different user generated contents as sources of infor-

mation: query logs, social knowledge such as Wikipedia, social photo sharing

such as Flickr, and real-time microblogging such as Twitter. By exploiting

these data, we have introduced several recommendation algorithms: to recom-

mend queries, to recommend touristic points of interest, and to recommend

news.

In Section 11.2, we presented an overview of query recommendation tech-

niques. In ...