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{{Paper
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|title=Using Latent Features Diversification to Reduce Choice Difficulty in Recommendation List
|pdfUrl=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-811/paper3.pdf
|volume=Vol-811
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==Using Latent Features Diversification to Reduce Choice Difficulty in Recommendation List==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-811/paper3.pdf
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Eindhoven University of Technology University of California, Irvine Eindhoven University of Technology
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Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology
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