arXiv AI By Eduardo Ferreira da Silva, Mayki dos Santos Oliveira, Joel Machado Pires Denis Dantas Boaventura, Frederico Ara\'ujo Dur\~ao

How Much Do Reviews Really Contribute? A Study on Text-Enriched Matrix Factorization for Recommendations

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arXiv:2606. 16973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incorporating textual reviews into a Recommender System has become a prominent strategy for enriching collaborative signals with semantic information.

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