[mb-devel] Collaborative Filtering: Artist - Artist Relationships (Summer of Code Proposal)

[sharon myrtle]

On 3/28/07, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2007/3/27, Thomas Tholén <badnewsbnw at gmail.com>:
> >
> > >
> > > Maybe this is an issue which can be solved by using weights. But those
> > > weights should probably depend on the company: Companies like Sony and
> > > BMG have too wide catalogues to be meaningful, but very small labels
> > > are probably very meaningful. Tricky: who should set the coefficients
> > > and how would they be changed?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Frederic Da Vitoria
> >
> >
> >
> > The bigger the company (= the more linked artists), the smaller the
> weight?
> >
> > //[bnw]
>
> Something like that. I guess we could set the weights manually, unless
> someone has a way to recover automatically the figures (number of
> releases, number of artists...). I believe that anyhow we will have to
> fiddle with the coefficients; I am sure there are big labels that are
> pretty coherent (Motown), and small ones which aren't.
>
> --
> Frederic Da Vitoria
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I feel setting weights based on the type of company will be better, i.e,
depending on the similarity of the artists under a label. For one recording
label, we could set the same coefficient value for all the artists under it.



-- 
Regards,
Sharon.
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