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<r><inproceedings key="conf/recsys/BalloccuBFMMM25" mdate="2025-10-15">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-1300-1876" pid="284/3550">Giacomo Medda</author>
<author orcid="0009-0001-4327-7718" pid="415/7437">Giovanni Murgia</author>
<title>GreenFoodLens: Sustainability Labels for Food Recommendation.</title>
<pages>764-773</pages>
<year>2025</year>
<booktitle>RecSys</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3705328.3748165</ee>
<crossref>conf/recsys/2025</crossref>
<url>db/conf/recsys/recsys2025.html#BalloccuBFMMM25</url>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/um/AfreenBBFMMM25" mdate="2025-07-06">
<author orcid="0000-0002-4507-3516" pid="310/8968">Neda Afreen</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-3287-4450" pid="256/8979">Francesca Maridina Malloci</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<author orcid="0009-0006-3729-231X" pid="378/9984">Andrea Giovanni Martis</author>
<title>Can Path-Based Explainable Recommendation Methods based on Knowledge Graphs Generalize for Personalized Education?</title>
<pages>273-278</pages>
<year>2025</year>
<booktitle>UMAP</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3699682.3728323</ee>
<crossref>conf/um/2025</crossref>
<url>db/conf/um/umap2025.html#AfreenBBFMMM25</url>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/cikm/AfreenBBFMMM24" mdate="2025-01-19">
<author orcid="0000-0002-4507-3516" pid="310/8968">Neda Afreen</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-3287-4450" pid="256/8979">Francesca Maridina Malloci</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<author orcid="0009-0006-3729-231X" pid="378/9984">Andrea Giovanni Martis</author>
<title>EDGE: A Conversational Interface driven by Large Language Models for Educational Knowledge Graphs Exploration.</title>
<pages>5159-5163</pages>
<year>2024</year>
<booktitle>CIKM</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3627673.3679231</ee>
<ee>https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130974213</ee>
<crossref>conf/cikm/2024</crossref>
<url>db/conf/cikm/cikm2024.html#AfreenBBFMMM24</url>
</inproceedings>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/ecir/BalloccuBFMM24" mdate="2024-04-01">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-3287-4450" pid="256/8979">Francesca Maridina Malloci</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Explainable Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs and Language Models.</title>
<pages>352-357</pages>
<year>2024</year>
<booktitle>ECIR (5)</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56069-9_46</ee>
<crossref>conf/ecir/2024-5</crossref>
<url>db/conf/ecir/ecir2024-5.html#BalloccuBFMM24</url>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/recsogood/BalloccuBFMMM24" mdate="2026-03-24">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-1300-1876" pid="284/3550">Giacomo Medda</author>
<author orcid="0009-0001-4327-7718" pid="415/7437">Giovanni Murgia</author>
<title>Knowledge Data Modeling in Food Recommendation: A Case Study on Nutritional Values.</title>
<pages>52-62</pages>
<year>2024</year>
<booktitle>RecSoGood@RecSys</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87654-7_5</ee>
<crossref>conf/recsogood/2024</crossref>
<url>db/conf/recsogood/recsogood2024.html#BalloccuBFMMM24</url>
</inproceedings>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/recsys/BalloccuBFMS24" mdate="2025-01-19">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<author orcid="0009-0006-3148-9760" pid="387/1770">Alessandro Soccol</author>
<title>KGGLM: A Generative Language Model for Generalizable Knowledge Graph Representation Learning in Recommendation.</title>
<pages>1079-1084</pages>
<year>2024</year>
<booktitle>RecSys</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3691703</ee>
<ee>https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q130799805</ee>
<crossref>conf/recsys/2024</crossref>
<url>db/conf/recsys/recsys2024.html#BalloccuBFMS24</url>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/um/AfreenBBFMMM24" mdate="2024-07-04">
<author orcid="0000-0002-4507-3516" pid="310/8968">Neda Afreen</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-3287-4450" pid="256/8979">Francesca Maridina Malloci</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<author orcid="0009-0006-3729-231X" pid="378/9984">Andrea Giovanni Martis</author>
<title>Learner-centered Ontology for Explainable Educational Recommendation.</title>
<year>2024</year>
<booktitle>UMAP (Adjunct Publication)</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3631700.3665226</ee>
<crossref>conf/um/2024a</crossref>
<url>db/conf/um/umap2024a.html#AfreenBBFMMM24</url>
</inproceedings>
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<r><article key="journals/kbs/BalloccuBFM23" mdate="2025-11-02">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Reinforcement recommendation reasoning through knowledge graphs for explanation path quality.</title>
<pages>110098</pages>
<year>2023</year>
<volume>260</volume>
<journal>Knowl. Based Syst.</journal>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.110098</ee>
<ee>https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q135967348</ee>
<url>db/journals/kbs/kbs260.html#BalloccuBFM23</url>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/ecir/BalloccuBCFM23" mdate="2023-03-28">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-6053-3015" pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author orcid="0000-0002-8206-3181" pid="337/9867">Christian Cancedda</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-4668-2476" pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author orcid="0000-0003-1989-6057" pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Knowledge is Power, Understanding is Impact: Utility and Beyond Goals, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Recommendation.</title>
<pages>3-19</pages>
<year>2023</year>
<booktitle>ECIR (3)</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_1</ee>
<crossref>conf/ecir/2023-3</crossref>
<url>db/conf/ecir/ecir2023-3.html#BalloccuBCFM23</url>
</inproceedings>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/iir/BalloccuBCFM23" mdate="2023-08-04">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="337/9867">Christian Cancedda</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Knowledge-aware Recommendations: Exploring the Interplay between Utility, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Methods.</title>
<pages>111-116</pages>
<year>2023</year>
<booktitle>IIR</booktitle>
<ee type="oa">https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3448/paper-26.pdf</ee>
<crossref>conf/iir/2023</crossref>
<url>db/conf/iir/iir2023.html#BalloccuBCFM23</url>
</inproceedings>
</r>
<r><inproceedings key="conf/iir/AfreenBBFM23" mdate="2023-08-04">
<author pid="310/8968">Neda Afreen</author>
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Towards Explainable Educational Recommendation through Path Reasoning Methods.</title>
<pages>131-136</pages>
<year>2023</year>
<booktitle>IIR</booktitle>
<ee type="oa">https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3448/paper-29.pdf</ee>
<crossref>conf/iir/2023</crossref>
<url>db/conf/iir/iir2023.html#AfreenBBFM23</url>
</inproceedings>
</r>
<r><inproceedings key="conf/recsys/Balloccu23" mdate="2023-09-24">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<title>Demystifying Recommender Systems: A Multi-faceted Examination of Explanation Generation, Impact, and Perception.</title>
<pages>1361-1363</pages>
<year>2023</year>
<booktitle>RecSys</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3604915.3608887</ee>
<crossref>conf/recsys/2023</crossref>
<url>db/conf/recsys/recsys2023.html#Balloccu23</url>
</inproceedings>
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<r><article publtype="informal" key="journals/corr/abs-2301-05944" mdate="2023-01-19">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="337/9867">Christian Cancedda</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Knowledge is Power, Understanding is Impact: Utility and Beyond Goals, Explanation Quality, and Fairness in Path Reasoning Recommendation.</title>
<year>2023</year>
<volume>abs/2301.05944</volume>
<journal>CoRR</journal>
<ee type="oa">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.05944</ee>
<url>db/journals/corr/corr2301.html#abs-2301-05944</url>
</article>
</r>
<r><article publtype="informal" key="journals/corr/abs-2310-16452" mdate="2023-10-31">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="337/9867">Christian Cancedda</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Faithful Path Language Modelling for Explainable Recommendation over Knowledge Graph.</title>
<year>2023</year>
<volume>abs/2310.16452</volume>
<journal>CoRR</journal>
<ee type="oa">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.16452</ee>
<url>db/journals/corr/corr2310.html#abs-2310-16452</url>
</article>
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<r><article publtype="software" key="journals/simpa/BalloccuBFM22" mdate="2023-08-28">
<author orcid="0000-0002-6857-7709" pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title><i>XRecSys</i>: A framework for path reasoning quality in explainable recommendation.</title>
<pages>100404</pages>
<year>2022</year>
<month>December</month>
<volume>14</volume>
<journal>Softw. Impacts</journal>
<ee type="oa">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simpa.2022.100404</ee>
<ee>https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q113864379</ee>
<url>db/journals/simpa/simpa14.html#BalloccuBFM22</url>
</article>
</r>
<r><inproceedings key="conf/iir/BalloccuBFM22" mdate="2023-03-10">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Recency, Popularity, and Diversity of Explanations in Knowledge-based Recommendation.</title>
<year>2022</year>
<booktitle>IIR</booktitle>
<ee type="oa">https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3177/paper18.pdf</ee>
<crossref>conf/iir/2022</crossref>
<url>db/conf/iir/iir2022.html#BalloccuBFM22</url>
</inproceedings>
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<r><inproceedings key="conf/recsys/BalloccuBFM22" mdate="2022-09-26">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Hands on Explainable Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs.</title>
<pages>710-713</pages>
<year>2022</year>
<booktitle>RecSys</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3523227.3547374</ee>
<crossref>conf/recsys/2022</crossref>
<url>db/conf/recsys/recsys2022.html#BalloccuBFM22</url>
</inproceedings>
</r>
<r><inproceedings key="conf/sigir/BalloccuBFM22" mdate="2022-07-08">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Post Processing Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs for Recency, Popularity, and Diversity of Explanations.</title>
<pages>646-656</pages>
<year>2022</year>
<booktitle>SIGIR</booktitle>
<ee>https://doi.org/10.1145/3477495.3532041</ee>
<crossref>conf/sigir/2022</crossref>
<url>db/conf/sigir/sigir2022.html#BalloccuBFM22</url>
</inproceedings>
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<r><article publtype="informal" key="journals/corr/abs-2204-11241" mdate="2022-04-28">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Post Processing Recommender Systems with Knowledge Graphs for Recency, Popularity, and Diversity of Explanations.</title>
<year>2022</year>
<volume>abs/2204.11241</volume>
<journal>CoRR</journal>
<ee type="oa">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2204.11241</ee>
<url>db/journals/corr/corr2204.html#abs-2204-11241</url>
</article>
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<r><article publtype="informal" key="journals/corr/abs-2209-04954" mdate="2022-09-27">
<author pid="319/3109">Giacomo Balloccu</author>
<author pid="50/7423">Ludovico Boratto</author>
<author pid="50/696">Gianni Fenu</author>
<author pid="208/4100">Mirko Marras</author>
<title>Reinforcement Recommendation Reasoning through Knowledge Graphs for Explanation Path Quality.</title>
<year>2022</year>
<volume>abs/2209.04954</volume>
<journal>CoRR</journal>
<ee type="oa">https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2209.04954</ee>
<url>db/journals/corr/corr2209.html#abs-2209-04954</url>
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