How to Analyze Free Text Descriptions for Recommending TV Programmes

Bernd Ludwig, Stefan Mandl · University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg) · 2006

This paper presents an approach to exploit free text de-scriptions of TV programmes as available from EPG data sets for a recommendation system that takes the content of programmes into account Our research is sponsored by Software-Offensive Bayern. Ferdinand Herrmann, Heike Ott, Kristina Makedonska, and Sebastian von Mammen provided valuable help implementing major parts of the presented system. The paper focusses on classifying free text descriptions in relation to natural language user queries.

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