User Modeling and Recommender Systems: course introduction

Adolfo Ruiz Calleja06/09/2014

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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