O professor Dietmar Jannach da Universidade de Dortmund estará visitando o DCC em Março. Ele ministrará um mini curso no tema de sua especialidade: Sistemas de recomendação. O curso acontecerá nos dias 9, 10 e 11 de Março, de 08:00 as 12:00 horas no Espaço Flex (prédio do i-NCE). O Espaço Flex se localiza debaixo da escada de acesso ao MOT e MBI. Pedimos que cheguem com 10 minutos de antecedência no primeiro dia do curso, principalmente os que não tem crachá de acesso ao prédio do iNCE, trazendo documento de identificação com foto que deve ser apresentado na portaria do prédio.
Short Course: Recommender Systems – An Introduction.
Abstract:
Recommender systems (RS) help users navigating through large product assortments, making decisions in e-commerce scenarios and overcome information overload. Probably the most prominent example is the recommendation service of Amazon.com. Their system takes the behavior, opinions and tastes of a large community of users into account and thus constitutes a social or collaborative recommendation approach. In contrast, content-based approaches rely on product features and textual item descriptions; knowledge-based algorithms, finally, generate item recommendations based on explicit knowledge models from the domain. Technically, recommender systems have their roots in different fields such as information retrieval, text classification, machine learning and decision support systems.
In the short course, we will first cover the main approaches to build recommender systems, including the basic techniques in the area of collaborative filtering, content-based filtering and knowledge-based systems. Furthermore, we will discuss questions of we can assess the quality of the recommendations generated by different algorithms and how we can compare different recommendation strategies though experimental evaluations. Finally, we will briefly survey recent trends and current developments in the field.
The lecture will be partially based on the book “Recommender Systems – An Introduction” by D. Jannach et al., Cambridge University Press, 2010.
