Establishing User Profiles in the MediaScout Recommender System

Author

Shani, Guy ; Rokach, Lior ; Meisles, Amnon ; Naamani, Lihi ; Piratla, Nischal ; Ben-Shimon, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Ben Gurion Univ.

fYear

2007

fDate

March 1 2007-April 5 2007

Firstpage

470

Lastpage

476

Abstract

The MediaScout system is envisioned to function as personalized media (audio, video, print) service within mobile phones, online media portals, sling boxes, etc. The MediaScout recommender engine uses a novel stereotype-based recommendation engine. Upon the registration of new users the system must decide how to classify the new users to existing stereotypes. In this paper we present a method to achieve this classification through an anytime, interactive questionnaire, created automatically upon the generation of new stereotypes. A comparative study performed on the IMDB database illustrates the advantages of the new system

Keywords

information filters; mobile computing; IMDB database; MediaScout recommender system; anytime questionnaire; interactive questionnaire; mobile phones; personalized audio service; personalized media service; personalized video service; stereotype-based recommendation engine; user profiles; Collaboration; Computational intelligence; Data engineering; Data mining; Information filtering; Information filters; Information systems; Recommender systems; Search engines; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, 2007. CIDM 2007. IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0705-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIDM.2007.368912

Filename

4221336