Seminar Topics and Projects

Pawel Matuszyk
Knowledge Management and Discovery
Otto-von-Guericke-Universit
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20. October 2014

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Topic 1 (Team Project-Master): Reliability Measures in RS

Measuring reliability of a rating prediction

Recommending only reliable and high predictions
Finding the best measure of reliability
Programming of reliability measures in Java
Code of a framework for RS provided
1 - 3 persons

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Topic 2 (Master Seminar): Reliability of Predictions in DM

Literature survey on measuring reliability of predictions

Focus on classification tasks
Considerations on applicability to RS
No programming required
Background in Data Mining beneficial

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Topic 3 (Master Seminar): Reliability of Predictions in RS

Literature survey on measuring reliability of rating predictions

Similar to previous task, but focus on existing measures for
RS
No programming required

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Topic 4 (Bachlor Seminar): Statistical Tests in RS

Literature survey on statistical tests for evaluating RS

What significance tests are used in literature?
When can we say: Recommender A is better than B with
significance level ?
What are the prerequisites of those tests?

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