Walk the Talk: On the Combination of Implicit and Explicit Feedback
Last week, Denis Parra presented our paper entitled “Walk the Talk: Analyzing the Relation between Implicit and Explicit Feedback for Preference Elicitation”...
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Did you prepare your talk?
I don’t consider myself to be a great presenter. As a matter of fact, every time I finish a presentation, I find myself thinking about how many things I scre...