This website provides support for “Recommender Systems: An Introduction” and “Recommender Systems Handbook.”
Recommender systems are an important area of research for topic maps because recommendation of necessity involves recognition (or attempted recognition) of subjects similar to an example subject. That recommendation may be captured in relationship to a particular set of user characteristics or it can be used as the basis for identifying a subject.
The site offers pointers to very strong teaching materials (as of 19 September 2011):
Slides
- Slides for Recommender Systems: An Introduction (August 2011)
Tutorials
- Tutorial slides (presented at IJCAI 2011)
Courses
- Francesco Ricci’s Information Search and Retrieval course
If you want to contribute teaching materials, please contact dietmar.jannach (at) udo.edu.