in

Support Forum

A forum to support users of The Filter

movie categorisation

Last post 04-11-2008 11:30 PM by ZedRock. 2 replies.
Page 1 of 1 (3 items)
Sort Posts: Previous Next
  • 04-11-2008 11:42 AM

    • iain
    • Top 100 Contributor
    • Joined on 04-11-2008
    • Posts 4

    movie categorisation

    'toy story' as a musical?

    'my beautiful laundrette' as historical?

    'kind hearts and coronets' as horror?

    'aliens' as action, not science fiction? 

  • 04-11-2008 11:07 PM In reply to

    • Tree
    • Top 10 Contributor
    • Joined on 12-19-2006
    • The Filter
    • Posts 79
    • Trusted Users

    Re: movie categorisation

    This is the same problem as for music. Once one is fixed they both should be. Hopefully we'll provide a fix for this early next week. 

    Filed under:
  • 04-11-2008 11:30 PM In reply to

    Re: movie categorisation

    ah, well spotted!

    what's happening here is that the INPUTs (seeds) you are giving to the taste profiler are being put into a recommendation call which is finding similar (recommended) items to fill in the display.  The problem is that there are, of course, going to be off-genre references e.g. mary poppins (musical) might have some link to toy story because of the disney connection (and the fact they are both great movies) hence toy story could appear when mary poppins is entered as a seed. 

    i cant get toy story to appear (its based on whatevery YOU rated as your preference) but i got harry potter as a musical (!?) so at least i can reproduce the symptoms :)

    the solution is, i think, pretty simple, which is to restrict (filter) the outputs to be in the same genre as the inputs.  I'll look at it tomorrow.

    -steve
Page 1 of 1 (3 items)
(c) The Filter, 2008