Luke, Wow, I was thinking of something along the lines of Bayesian filtering too!
I was thinking that - if Bayesian filters can be trained to pick out spam, how about television programmes? Of course spam contains a lot more information - headers, formatting etc whereas you'd just have a title and a few sentences of description for each programme. The lines I was thinking along were marking certain programmes as favourites and the app will tell you if favourite programmes are coming up in the next week, and suggest different ones you might like. David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luke Dicken Sent: 05 September 2005 2:15 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Competition - Ideas but no time My background is fairly heavily AI-slanted so that's the sort of area I've been coming up with ideas. I think the best one I've had so far is to take the data and couple it with a Bayesian classification system. By using a reasonable set of training data (a previous week's listings for example) and a decent heuristic you should be able to create an AI system that can predictively suggest forthcoming programmes. You would also need some ancillary odds and sods like user tracking to cater on a per-person basis. With the basic system implemented the heuristic function could be tweaked to make it more accurate if necessary, the same base system could also be used with multiple functions - perhaps one could have a larger emphasis on timing than content etc. The coding for this most likely wouldn't be all that intense since its primarily mathematical, although storing the results of profiling would give it a reasonable amount of overhead (or would require a bit of ninja-ing) since you would be having to do a certain amount of natural language analysis on the data. I don't know about you guys, but something that highlighted programs I might be interested in would certainly be of benefit to me, saving me trawling through the listings. ------------------ "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." Groucho Marx > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Gilbert > Sent: 05 September 2005 13:23 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] Competition - Ideas but no time > > > I'm pretty sure I goes for the majority of people here to say that we > are always interested to hear ideas. > > Why not throw them into the discussion and see what happens? > > -- > Chris Gilbert > > 07966 077 486 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On 5 Sep 2005, at 12:14, Luke Dicken wrote: > > > > I have some ideas for projects but no time to fulfill them, is there > > anyone out there who has time but no ideas? > > > > Luke > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." > > > > Groucho Marx > > > > > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To > unsubscribe, > > please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/ > > mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail- > > archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please visit > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 02/09/05 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 02/09/05 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
