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UBR: A Book Search - Recommender Hybrid

@inproceedings{Hall2017UBRAB,
  title={UBR: A Book Search - Recommender Hybrid},
  author={Jason Hall and Maria Soledad Pera},
  booktitle={The Florida AI Research Society},
  year={2017}
}
We present UBR, a Unit Book Recommender that combines search and recommendation into a single tool that eases the task of locating educational resources, specifically books. UBR relies on the extensive selection of books available at popular book websites and the expert knowledge archived on educational websites to generate a list of suitable book alternatives that can be readily obtained and used when teaching any unit of study. As a case study, UBR focuses on the Joy School teaching… 
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