Recommendations by Concise User Profiles from Review Text: Ethics Statement and References

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• Abstract and Introduction
• Related Work
• Methodology
• Experimental Design
• Experimental Results
• Conclusion
• Ethics Statement and References

VII. ETHICS STATEMENT

Ethical concerns which are potentially relevant are about the privacy of the users whose likes and reviews are kept in the data and the appropriateness of the review contents. All data in our experiments was obtained from the public repository at UCSD [40]. To the best of our knowledge, these datasets were already sanitized and anonymized for public research. The reviews on Amazon and Goodreads comply to the community guidelines of these websites[4][5], prohibiting hate speech, spam and otherwise offensive content.

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