EntityBot: Supporting everyday digital tasks with entity recommendations

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  • Tung Vuong
  • Salvatore Andolina
  • Giulio Jacucci
  • Pedram Daee
  • Khalil Klouche
  • Mats Sjöberg
  • Ruotsalo, Tuukka
  • Samuel Kaski

Everyday digital tasks can highly benefit from systems that recommend the right information to use at the right time. However, existing solutions typically support only specific applications and tasks. In this demo, we showcase EntityBot, a system that captures context across application boundaries and recommends information entities related to the current task. The user's digital activity is continuously monitored by capturing all content on the computer screen using optical character recognition. This includes all applications and services being used and specific to individuals' computer usages such as instant messaging, emailing, web browsing, and word processing. A linear model is then applied to detect the user's task context to retrieve entities such as applications, documents, contact information, and several keywords determining the task. The system has been evaluated with real-world tasks, demonstrating that the recommendation had an impact on the tasks and led to high user satisfaction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecSys 2021 - 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
Number of pages4
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Publication date13 Sep 2021
Pages753-756
ISBN (Electronic)9781450384582
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Sep 2021
Event15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2021 - Virtual, Online, Netherlands
Duration: 27 Sep 20211 Oct 2021

Conference

Conference15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2021
LandNetherlands
ByVirtual, Online
Periode27/09/202101/10/2021
SponsorACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI), ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web (ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web), ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data (SIGKDD), Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (SIGecom)
SeriesRecSys 2021 - 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Partially funded by the EU H2020 project CO-ADAPT, the MIUR (PON AIM), and the Academy of Finland (322653, 328875, 336085, 319264, 292334).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Owner/Author.

    Research areas

  • Proactive information retrieval, Real-world tasks, User intent modeling

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