SciNUP: Natural Language User Interest Profiles for Scientific Literature Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21352v1
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:28:08 GMT
• Title: SciNUP: Natural Language User Interest Profiles for Scientific Literature Recommendation
• Authors: Mariam Arustashvili, Krisztian Balog,
• Abstract summary: Natural language (NL) user profiles in recommender systems offer greater transparency and user control.<n>There is scarcity of large-scale, publicly available test collections for evaluating NL profile-based recommendation.<n>We introduce SciNUP, a novel synthetic dataset for scholarly recommendation.
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• Abstract: The use of natural language (NL) user profiles in recommender systems offers greater transparency and user control compared to traditional representations. However, there is scarcity of large-scale, publicly available test collections for evaluating NL profile-based recommendation. To address this gap, we introduce SciNUP, a novel synthetic dataset for scholarly recommendation that leverages authors' publication histories to generate NL profiles and corresponding ground truth items. We use this dataset to conduct a comparison of baseline methods, ranging from sparse and dense retrieval approaches to state-of-the-art LLM-based rerankers. Our results show that while baseline methods achieve comparable performance, they often retrieve different items, indicating complementary behaviors. At the same time, considerable headroom for improvement remains, highlighting the need for effective NL-based recommendation approaches. The SciNUP dataset thus serves as a valuable resource for fostering future research and development in this area.

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