Current Challenges and Future Directions in Podcast Information Access

2021/06/17 by Rosie Jones, Hamed Zamani, Jones, Rosie +25 · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media #Web Data Mining and Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2106.09227

openalex publication_date 2021/06/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Podcasts are spoken documents across a wide-range of genres and styles, with growing listenership across the world, and a rapidly lowering barrier to entry for both listeners and creators. The great strides in search and recommendation in research and industry have yet to see impact in the podcast space, where recommendations are still largely driven by word of mouth. In this perspective paper, we highlight the many differences between podcasts and other media, and discuss our perspective on challenges and future research directions in the domain of podcast information access.

Citations

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