{"id":17,"date":"2023-04-05T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour23\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:35:39","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Workshop Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Session 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8:30\u20138:45 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;Opening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8:45\u20139:20 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/keynote\/\">Keynote<\/a><br><strong>Adir Solomon:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Beyond Relevance: Recommender Systems for Tourism with Users and Society in Mind<\/em>&nbsp;(30+5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9:20\u20139:38 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;Paper Presentation<br><strong>Ioannis Partalas<\/strong>&nbsp;and John Dines:&nbsp;<em>Learning Position Embeddings for Ad CTR Prediction<\/em>&nbsp;(15+3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9:39\u20139:57 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;Paper Presentation<br>Sreeram Ajay, Atharva Kinage, Abhilash Fulkar, Parag Jain, Sambit Sarangi, Piyush Kumar and Sanjay Mohan:&nbsp;<em>TravelMind: From Clickstream to Conversational Recommender via Semantic IDs, Staged Synthetic Data, and Multi-Phase Alignment<\/em>&nbsp;(15+3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10:00\u201310:30 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;Coffee Break<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Session 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10:30\u201310:48 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;Paper Presentation<br><strong>Syed Mohammed Arshad Zaidi<\/strong>, Eric Rincon and Shayan Hassantabar:&nbsp;<em>A Multi-Source Ensemble Approach to Candidate Generation for Alternative Vacation Rental Property Recommendations<\/em>&nbsp;(15+3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10:49\u201311:07 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;Paper Presentation<br><strong>Golnaz Moallem<\/strong>, Saria Goudarzvand, Eric Rincon, Iman Keivanloo and Shayan Hassantabar:&nbsp;<em>Self-Supervised Multi-Image Property Visual Representation for Large-Scale Recommendation Systems<\/em>&nbsp;(15+3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11:08\u201311:26 AM<\/strong>&nbsp;Paper Presentation<br>Akshita Asati, Akash Khetan, Gnan Deep Rathan K, Sharath Chandran, Saksham Raj, Sambit Sarangi, Sanjay Mohan and Piyush Kumar:&nbsp;<em>Discovering MicroTravel Trends from Multimodal Social Media for Tourism Recommendation<\/em>(15+3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11:27 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/strong>&nbsp;RecTour@10: Reflection and Closing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshop Schedule Session 1 8:30\u20138:45 AM&nbsp;Opening 8:45\u20139:20 AM&nbsp;KeynoteAdir Solomon:&nbsp;Beyond Relevance: Recommender Systems for Tourism with Users and Society in Mind&nbsp;(30+5) 9:20\u20139:38 AM&nbsp;Paper PresentationIoannis Partalas&nbsp;and John Dines:&nbsp;Learning Position Embeddings for Ad CTR Prediction&nbsp;(15+3) 9:39\u20139:57 AM&nbsp;Paper PresentationSreeram Ajay, Atharva Kinage, Abhilash Fulkar,&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/program\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":372,"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workshops.ds-ifs.tuwien.ac.at\/rectour26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}