Workshop Schedule
Session 1
8:30–8:45 AM Opening
8:45–9:20 AM Keynote
Adir Solomon: Beyond Relevance: Recommender Systems for Tourism with Users and Society in Mind (30+5)
9:20–9:38 AM Paper Presentation
Ioannis Partalas and John Dines: Learning Position Embeddings for Ad CTR Prediction (15+3)
9:39–9:57 AM Paper Presentation
Sreeram Ajay, Atharva Kinage, Abhilash Fulkar, Parag Jain, Sambit Sarangi, Piyush Kumar and Sanjay Mohan: TravelMind: From Clickstream to Conversational Recommender via Semantic IDs, Staged Synthetic Data, and Multi-Phase Alignment (15+3)
10:00–10:30 AM Coffee Break
Session 2
10:30–10:48 AM Paper Presentation
Syed Mohammed Arshad Zaidi, Eric Rincon and Shayan Hassantabar: A Multi-Source Ensemble Approach to Candidate Generation for Alternative Vacation Rental Property Recommendations (15+3)
10:49–11:07 AM Paper Presentation
Golnaz Moallem, Saria Goudarzvand, Eric Rincon, Iman Keivanloo and Shayan Hassantabar: Self-Supervised Multi-Image Property Visual Representation for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems (15+3)
11:08–11:26 AM Paper Presentation
Akshita Asati, Akash Khetan, Gnan Deep Rathan K, Sharath Chandran, Saksham Raj, Sambit Sarangi, Sanjay Mohan and Piyush Kumar: Discovering MicroTravel Trends from Multimodal Social Media for Tourism Recommendation(15+3)
11:27 AM–12:00 PM RecTour@10: Reflection and Closing