Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Sommer Felix;
Language
French
Content
Nowadays, recommender systems play an ever more important role to propose products or services to consumers. Recommending movies, music, news, books, restaurants, financial services, search terms, or contacts, etc. has become a key asset for many companies. Recommender systems can be based on numerous approaches in existence today. This course covers some of these systems with a focus on recommender systems data, collaborative filtering, matrix factorization, and the evaluation of recommender systems.
Teaching methods
Lectures, Lab work integrated into the course
Evaluation methods
Oral examination based on the lectures as well as a development project
Online resources
Brief introduction: https://tryolabs.com/blog/introduction-to-recommender-systems/
General overview: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-29659-3
General overview: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-29659-3
Bibliography
Ekstrand, Michael D., John T. Riedl, and Joseph A. Konstan. "Collaborative filtering recommender systems." Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction 4, no. 2 (2011): 81-173.
Aggarwal, Charu C.. “Recommender Systems.” Springer International Publishing (2016).
Aggarwal, Charu C.. “Recommender Systems.” Springer International Publishing (2016).
Faculty or entity
CLSM
