User Modeling and Recommender

Systems: course introduction

Adolfo Ruiz Calleja06/09/2014

Index

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• Introduce myself• Ask some questions• Introduce the course• Introduce the tools that are going to be used

during the course

• Adolfo Ruiz Calleja• Telecommunication Engineer• PhD Telecommunication Engineer

– SEEK-AT-WD: A social-semantic infrastructure for educators to discover and select ICT tools in the Web of Data

• Freelance developer for a few months• Working at Tallinn University

– Mainly focused on Learning + Information Retrieval Systems

• Contact: – adolfo@tlu.ee– A-317

Introduce myself

Introduce the course

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• Who has a technical background?• Who is interested on research/making a PhD thesis?• Who has previous experience editing a Wiki?

Introduce the course

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• Objectives– Obtain conceptual knowledge about recommender systems– Understand how to design recommender systems for specific

domains

• Designed using Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) techniques– Individual and collaborative tasks– Peer review tasks– Debates– Oral and written presentations

• But it requires some ethics

Introduce the course

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• Main workspace is based on Mediawiki– You can find the course plan, bibliography, etc.– You are expected to publish and share information– All your work will be collected there

http://htk.tlu.ee/recommendersystems/index.php