Sihem Amer-Yahia visiting Webdam
Sihem Amer-Yahia is visiting Webdam from Tuesday 1 December to Thursday 31 December. She is a Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research New-York. She will present her work on recommendation Friday 4 December at 3pm in the meeting room G008.
Title: I’ll Have What She’s Having: Recommendations on Social Content Sites
Abstract: We examine the challenges behind recommendations in social content sites. We use collaborative tagging sites (think del.icio.us, YouTube and Yahoo!Travel) as our application and report on our experiments in harvesting the collective tagging behavior to serve relevant content (think URLs, videos, travel destinations) to users. We address well-known and lesser-known problems in recommender systems such as over-specialization and data management for the masses. We conclude with open questions.