Geeking with Greg:
A recent paper from SIGIR, "The Wisdom of the Few: A Collaborative Filtering Approach Based on Expert Opinions from the Web" (PDF), has a very useful exploration into the effectiveness of recommendations using only a small pool of trusted experts.The results suggest that using a small pool of a couple hundred experts, possi (Read More)
Geeking with Greg:
The Large Scale Recommender Systems and the Netflix Prize workshop was recently held at KDD 2008. I was not able to attend, but I still wanted to highlight a few of the papers from and related to the workshop.Gavin Potter, the famous guy in a garage, had a short paper in the workshop, "Putting the collaborator back into co (Read More)