Thursday, January 24, 2008

News - Week 2 -Jester: The Online joke Recommender

Jester is online system that recommends jokes based on previous joke ratings. It uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste.

Eigentaste uses universal queries to elicit real-value ratings and applies principal component analysis to facilitate dimensionality reduction for users' clustering. It is proven to be more efficient than nearest-neighbor techniques and other techniques based on output data from JESTER.

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