Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey
Haolun Wu, Yansen Zhang, Chen Ma, Fuyuan Lyu, Bowei He, Bhaskar Mitra,, Xue Liu

TL;DR
This survey provides a comprehensive overview of diversity in search and recommendation systems, introducing a unified taxonomy of metrics and approaches, and discusses open research challenges to guide future work.
Contribution
It is the first to systematically organize and unify the classification of diversity metrics and approaches in both search and recommendation systems.
Findings
Proposes a unified taxonomy for diversity metrics and approaches.
Highlights key differences and relationships between search and recommendation diversity.
Discusses open research questions to inspire future innovations.
Abstract
Diversifying return results is an important research topic in retrieval systems in order to satisfy both the various interests of customers and the equal market exposure of providers. There has been growing attention on diversity-aware research during recent years, accompanied by a proliferation of literature on methods to promote diversity in search and recommendation. However, diversity-aware studies in retrieval systems lack a systematic organization and are rather fragmented. In this survey, we are the first to propose a unified taxonomy for classifying the metrics and approaches of diversification in both search and recommendation, which are two of the most extensively researched fields of retrieval systems. We begin the survey with a brief discussion of why diversity is important in retrieval systems, followed by a summary of the various diversity concerns in search and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSocioeconomic Development in MENA · Information Retrieval and Search Behavior · Knowledge Management and Sharing
