Associate Professor

Universität Innsbruck

Biography

Eva is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She recently was awarded the habilitation degree (venia docendi) in Computer Science in 2023 (title of thesis: “Recommender Systems for Music Retrieval Tasks”). In 2013, Eva earned her Ph.D. from the University of Innsbruck, focusing on recommender systems for collaborative social media platforms. She has expanded her research horizons by undertaking short-term research stays at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.

Eva’s research centers on recommender systems, particularly evaluation and user modeling. She co-organizes the PERSPECTIVES workshop series and has received multiple awards, including RecSys Best Short Paper (2025), Women in RecSys Best Journal Paper (2022, 2023), and the RecSys Distinguished Senior PC Member Award (2025).

In addition to her scholarly endeavors, Eva is also a co-author of a book on MySQL, which is currently in its third edition.

Interests
  • Recommender Systems
  • Music Information Retrieval
  • Information Retrieval
  • Natural Language Processing
Education

  • Habilitation in Computer Science, 2023

    University of Innsbruck, Austria

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2013

    University of Innsbruck, Austria

  • Master in Computer Science, 2007

    University of Innsbruck, Austria

News

  • Yeah, we won the Best Short Paper at RecSys 2025 for our paper “Beyond Top-1: Addressing Inconsistencies in Evaluating Counterfactual Explanations for Recommender Systems”! Also, I was awarded the Distinguished Senior PC Member Award [09/2025].
  • I will serve as PC Chair for CLEF (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum) 2026 - together with Philipp Schaer [09/2025].
  • Just joined the SPC for the User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendation track at WebConf 2026 [09/2025].
  • RecSys 2025 news: Our short paper “Beyond Top-1: Addressing Inconsistencies in Evaluating Counterfactual Explanations for Recommender Systems” and Michael’s Doctoral Symposium paper “Advancing User-Centric Evaluation and Design of Conversational Recommender Systems” have been accepted [07/2025].
  • Our journal paper “Nuanced Music Emotion Recognition via Semi-Supervised Multi-Relational Graph Neural Network” has just been published at TISMIR, joint work together with Andreas Peintner, Marta Moscati, Yu Kinoshita, Richard Vogl, Peter Knees, Markus Schedl, Hannah Strauss, and Marcel Zentner [06/2025].
  • Our workshop proposal “Beyond Algorithms: Reclaiming the Interdisciplinary Roots of Recommender Systems (BEYOND 2025)” has been accepted at RecSys 2025 - together with Christine Bauer and Alan Said [04/2025].
  • Our paper “Hypergraph-based Temporal Modelling of Repeated Intent for Sequential Recommendation” was accepted at The Web Conference 2025 as a full paper (acceptance rate 19.83%, A*) [01/2025].

Recent Publications

Janek Bevendorff, Daryna Dementieva, Maik Fröbe, Bela Gipp, André Greiner-Petter, Jussi Karlgren, Maximilian Mayerl, Preslav Nakov, Alexander Panchenko, Martin Potthast, Artem Shelmanov, Efstathios Stamatatos, Benno Stein, Yuxia Wang, Matti Wiegmann, Eva Zangerle (2025). Overview of PAN 2025: Voight-Kampff Generative AI Detection, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis, and Generative Plagiarism Detection. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025).

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Andreas Peintner, Marta Moscati, Yu Kinoshita, Richard Vogl, Peter Knees, Markus Schedl, Hannah Strauss, Marcel Zentner, Eva Zangerle (2025). Nuanced Music Emotion Recognition via a Semi-Supervised Multi-Relational Graph Neural Network. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval.

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Andreas Peintner, Amir Reza Mohammadi, Eva Zangerle (2025). Efficient Session-based Recommendation with Contrastive Graph-based Shortest Path Search. ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems.

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Peer-Ole Jacobsen, Hannah Strauss, Julia Vigl, Eva Zangerle, Marcel Zentner (2025). Assessing aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or less: A comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9. Musicae Scientiae.

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Eva Zangerle, Alan Said, Christine Bauer (2025). Beyond Algorithms: Reclaiming the Interdisciplinary Roots of Recommender Systems (BEYOND 2025). Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems.

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Selected Projects

Professional Service

Conference Organization

  • Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2026 (Program Chair)
  • Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2026 (Doctoral Consortium Chair)
  • Austrian Computer Science Day 2025 (Organizer)
  • ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2024 (Workshop Chair)
  • Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2024 (Track Chair Personalized Recommender Systems)
  • ACM Annual Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2024 (Workshop and Tutorials Chair)
  • Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2022 (Track Chair Personalized Recommender Systems)
  • ACM Hypertext 2022 (Track Chair Adaptive Web and Recommender Systems)
  • Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2021 (Late Breaking Results and Demo Chair)
  • International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2020 (Publication Chair)
  • International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2019 (Tutorials Chair)
  • Women in MIR at International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) 2018 (WiMIR Chair)

Workshop Organization

  • BEYOND 2025 Workshop: Beyond Algorithms: Reclaiming the Interdisciplinary Roots of Recommender Systems at ACM Recommender Systems 2025.
  • INTROSPECTIVES 2024 Workshop: Reflections on Recommender Systems Past, Present, and Future at ACM Recommender Systems 2024.
  • Dagstuhl Seminar: Evaluation Perspectives of Recommender Systems: Driving Research and Education 2024.
  • PERSPECTIVES 2023 Workshop: 3rd Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2023.
  • PERSPECTIVES 2022 Workshop: 2nd Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2022.
  • PERSPECTIVES 2021 Workshop: Perspectives on the Evaluation of Recommender Systems Workshop at ACM Recommender Systems 2021.
  • 2nd WiMIR Workshop at International Society on Music Information Retrieval Conference (Project Guide for Multi-Dimensional User Models for MIR).
  • 1st International Workshop on Multi-Method Evaluation of Personalized Systems @UMAP 2018 – User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, 2018.
  • 23rd Workshop Grundlagen von Datenbanken 2011.

Challenge Organization

  • Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2026 (Task Chair)
  • Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2025 (Task Chair)
  • Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2024 (Task Chair)
  • Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2023 (Task Chair)
  • Multi-Author Analysis Task, PAN@CLEF 2022 (Task Chair)
  • Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2021 (Task Chair)
  • Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2020 (Task Chair)
  • Style Change Detection Task, PAN@CLEF 2019 (Task Chair)

Editorial Service

  • Guest editor: Special Issue “Perspectives on Recommender Systems Evaluation” in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (together with Christine Bauer and Alan Said) [2022-2024]

Reviewing for Conferences

  • European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) [2019, 2021-2025, senior PC member 2026]
  • The Web Conference [2022, senior PC member 2023, 2026]
  • ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) [2024, senior PC member for short papers 2024, 2026]
  • ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) [2018-2022; best reviewer award nominee 2018; senior PC member 2024-2025]
  • ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) [2022, senior PC member 2023-2025]
  • Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) [2019-2021, 2023-2024; senior PC member 2025; best reviewer award nominee 2023]
  • Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) [2025 (Lab Proposals)]
  • International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR) [2016, meta-reviewer 2017-2022, 2024]
  • MuRS: Music Recommender Systems Workshop [2024-2025]
  • First International Workshop on Graph-Based Approaches in Information Retrieval [2024]
  • ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) [2023]
  • International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation [2020-2023]
  • Workshop on Adaptive and Personalized Explainable User Interfaces [2022]
  • International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym) [2021]
  • Workshop on Computational Humanities Research [2020-2021]
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM) [2019-2020]
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) [2015-2020]
  • Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems Workshop (ExUM) [2020]
  • ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci) [2019]
  • Sound & Music Computing Conference (SMC) [2019]
  • Workshop on Explainable and Holistic User Modeling [2019]
  • Workshop Engineering Accountable Information Systems [2019]
  • International Workshop on Transparent Personalization Methods based on Heterogeneous Personal Data [2019]
  • International Conference on New Music Concepts (ICNMC) [2014-2019]
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) [2016-2019]
  • Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) [2017, 2019]
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) [2018]
  • Workshop on Social Aspects in Personalization and Search (SoAPS) [2018]
  • International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS) [2014-2018]
  • Digital Humanities Austria (DHA) [2017-2018]
  • Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search (SoMePeaS) [2017]
  • International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SemaPro) [2017]
  • Workshop on Linked Enterprise Data Services, Provenance, Linking and QualitY (LEDSPLaY) [2017]
  • Workshop on Engineering Computer-Human Interaction in Recommender Systems (EnCHIReS) [2016]
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS, Social Media in Business and Society) [2016]
  • International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTiCS), Poster Track [2014-2016]
  • Affect and Sentiment in Multimedia Workshop (ASM) [2015]
  • International Workshop on Social Media Retrieval and Analysis (Somera) [2014-2015]
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS, Social Media Research and Analytics Track) [2015]
  • International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) [2014]
  • International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-Semantics) [2012-2013]

Reviewing for Journals

  • ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (distinguished reviewer)
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
  • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
  • Data Mining and Discovery
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence: The International Journal of Intelligent Real-Time Automation
  • EPJ Data Science
  • EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
  • Expert Systems with Applications Journal
  • Frontiers in AI - Natural Language Processing
  • Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
  • Information Sciences (Informatics and Computer Science Intelligent Systems Applications)
  • International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR)
  • International Journal on Human-Computer Studies
  • Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
  • Journal of Grid Computing
  • Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)
  • Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
  • PLOS One
  • Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (TISMIR)
  • User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI)

Contact

Dr. Eva Zangerle