What's on tonight: user-centered and situation-aware proposals for TV programmes

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an approach to exploit free text descriptions of TV programmes as available from EPG data sets for a TV recommender system that takes the content of programmes into account. The paper focuses on the natural language understanding problem underlying the analysis of free text descriptions and on methods of classifying free text descriptions with respect to a natural language user query. We close with an evaluation of user acceptance and a discussion of future work.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Natural language

General Terms:
Algorithms, Human Factors