Second KDD Workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems (May 30, 2008 / August 24, 2008)
The second Workshop on Large-Scale Recommender Systems will be held at KDD 2008 in Las Vegas. The topics of interest include:
- Novel recommendation models, emphasizing accuracy, performance and asymptotic behavior
- Scalability problems in recommender systems
- Novel evaluation methodologies for recommendation quality
- Efficient integration of multiple complementary predictors
- Studies of content-filtering vs. collaborative filtering and their integration in large-scale environments
- Explaining and presenting recommendations to end-users
- Idiosyncrasies of the Netflix Prize dataset and lessons learned from its analysis
- The Netflix Prize competition at large
I have written about the Netflix Prize competition before on this blog.
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