Context-aware Movie Recommendation – CAMRa

As I’ve written earlier, at this year’s RecSys we’re organizing a challenge on context-aware movie recommendation. The challenge is part of a joint event together with the workshop on Context-Aware Recommender Systems (CARS) and I’m anticipating both events to be very interesting.

We’re done with the reviewing and currently waiting for the camera ready versions [...]

August 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: conferences, information retrieval, recommender systems, research | 3 comments

What is context?

There’s been loads and loads of publications written about context awareness, but very little on what context actually is. Is it the user’s situation, the item’s situation, or any other surronding features? What about the statics and dynamics of it? What are the major differences of static and dynamic contexts? [...]

March 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: information retrieval, recommender systems, research | Leave a comment

Movie ratings vs. video ratings

I found this pretty interesting blog-post by Youtubes’ Shiva Rajaraman about the distribution of ratings in Youtube videos. Seems almost no people rate videos with anything else than five stars. As soon as I read it I did a similar plot of  the Filmtipset dataset I’ve been working on lately.

It seems that there’s quite [...]

December 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: information retrieval, research | Leave a comment

WSDM 2009

WSDM 2009

In February I went to the Second ACM Iternational Conference on Web Search and Data Mining organized at the Yahoo! research center in Barcelona. We had a paper on “A hybrid approach to item recommendation in folksonomies” at the Workshop on Exploiting Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval.

Being my first conference, I [...]

March 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: conferences, information retrieval, research, travel | Leave a comment
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