Similarity Weighting Schemes for Collaborative Filtering

Recently I presented a paper on the effects of similarity weighting schemes on collaborative filtering recommender systems at the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, more specificall in the Track on Trust, Reputation, Evidence and Collaborative Know-How.

I received a few questions about the presentation, this post aims at answering some of them, and provide [...]

2nd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation

Last week we got notification from the IUI workshop chairs that our project proposal for the 2nd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation had been accepted to the 2012 Intelligent User Interfaces Conference.

This year the organising team consists of Ernesto De Luca, Matthias Böhmer, Ed Chi and myself.

We’re hoping to attract a [...]

UMAP2011 and IJCAI2011

I’m currently preparing myself for two weeks of Catalan sun, first in Girona for UMAP2011 and then another week in Barcelona for IJCAI2011. Not having been to either of these conferences before, I am (needless to say) quite excited.

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Orange in Ubuntu 10.10

Orange is an open source data visualization tool, it seems to be quite nifty, however it is a bit tricky to get it to run under Ubuntu 10.10 (or any other Ubuntu if you’ve got Python 2.6 installed).

There is a very short guide on how to add the repositories and install Orange using the [...]

Workshop on Context-aware Retrieval and Recommendation

Earlier today we got the acceptance notification of our workshop on Context-aware Retrieval and Recommendation which we will be organizing at next years (2011) Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference which will be held at Stanford University in February next year. [...]

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