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Show HN: Pick a movie you like and discover others semantically

8 points by mhuffman 12y ago

lambtron 12y ago
This is cool. Movie recommendations are not easy, since there are just too many dimensions with which to compare movies. Sometimes there is just no better movie recommendation than just having a friend who knows your tastes. Here is another site that has proven some worthy suggestions for me in the past. http://www.nanocrowd.com/ http://www.nanocrowd.com/
- mhuffman 12y ago
  We have a broader semantic navigation technology that is driving this site. Shortly we will be doing apps for books, video games, and business. We think that why movie recommendations are so hard is because people might like the same movie for different reasons. For example, if I told two friends that I liked the movie "Titanic", and asked for a recommendation they might separately recommend "The Perfect Storm" and "Avatar". Two very different movies, but both would count as good recommendations for different reasons. The problem, is that when a person recommends a movie to you, they have already filtered it according to what they thought was interesting about the movie. Having said that it is still the best way to discover new movies. We believe that easy to use semantic browsing is a good middle-ground for any information discovery. nanocrowd is very cool. I have not heard of the company before, but they have a very interesting take.
pskittle 12y ago
Do you'll do TV shows too?
- mhuffman 12y ago
  Right now just movies, but if there is interest TV shows would not be a problem. The underlying technology can work with most semantically related data sources.
lobster_johnson 12y ago
What's the source dataset? IMDb?
- mhuffman 12y ago
  No we are using open semantic data sources to start. Soon movie lovers will be able to add their own data to the ontology.
  - lobster_johnson 12y ago
    Open semantic data sources? That's very vague. :) Freebase?
    - mhuffman 12y ago
      Freebase, wikipedia, yago, wordnet, and some others. Nearly all hand-curated.
      - lobster_johnson 12y ago
        YAGO looks interesting -- and it seems to encapsulate both Freebase and Wikipedia. Does this mean you're using YAGO to get to Freebase/Wikipedia?
        mhuffman 12y ago
        No. YAGO is actually a curated subset of those.

8 points by mhuffman 12y ago

This is cool. Movie recommendations are not easy, since there are just too many dimensions with which to compare movies. Sometimes there is just no better movie recommendation than just having a friend who knows your tastes. Here is another site that has proven some worthy suggestions for me in the past. http://www.nanocrowd.com/ http://www.nanocrowd.com/

mhuffman 12y ago
We have a broader semantic navigation technology that is driving this site. Shortly we will be doing apps for books, video games, and business. We think that why movie recommendations are so hard is because people might like the same movie for different reasons. For example, if I told two friends that I liked the movie "Titanic", and asked for a recommendation they might separately recommend "The Perfect Storm" and "Avatar". Two very different movies, but both would count as good recommendations for different reasons. The problem, is that when a person recommends a movie to you, they have already filtered it according to what they thought was interesting about the movie. Having said that it is still the best way to discover new movies. We believe that easy to use semantic browsing is a good middle-ground for any information discovery. nanocrowd is very cool. I have not heard of the company before, but they have a very interesting take.

pskittle 12y ago

Do you'll do TV shows too?

mhuffman 12y ago
Right now just movies, but if there is interest TV shows would not be a problem. The underlying technology can work with most semantically related data sources.

lobster_johnson 12y ago

What's the source dataset? IMDb?

mhuffman 12y ago
No we are using open semantic data sources to start. Soon movie lovers will be able to add their own data to the ontology.
- lobster_johnson 12y ago
  Open semantic data sources? That's very vague. :) Freebase?
  - mhuffman 12y ago
    Freebase, wikipedia, yago, wordnet, and some others. Nearly all hand-curated.
    - lobster_johnson 12y ago
      YAGO looks interesting -- and it seems to encapsulate both Freebase and Wikipedia. Does this mean you're using YAGO to get to Freebase/Wikipedia?
      - mhuffman 12y ago
        No. YAGO is actually a curated subset of those.