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Friday, October 19, 2007
Seminar at TsingHua University
I did not go to Beijing for leisure. Actually I went there to present a paper at an international conference, and to pay visits to Dr. Zhang Li and Dr. Shi Yuanchun at TsingHua University . The pictures posted here were taken after work.
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We happened to discuss this kind of things in class yesterday. One problem about this is that people will buy something for others as a gift, but the system thinks it is the buyer who was interested in this and keeps recommending similar items which the buyer isn't really like himself.
That's a good point, and a recognized problem in recommender systems. To some extent, it is still a kind of interest of the buyer, although it is indirect. To some extent it can be accounted for by a degree of interest, estimated by the frequency of purchases, etc.
A related problem is the difficulty in establishing the identity of the person expressing an interest or opinion. For example, often only the IP address of the machine is known.
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