CMM539 Information Retrieval Systems.

Recommender Systems

Overview
All files needed for the coursework are on Moodle in file Coursework2Resources.zip.

You will produce one or more RapidMiner files in each of the three stages of the coursework, as well as answering the questions in a single word document. All the files should be stored in a single folder and zipped before submitting to Moodle.

Your tasks are divided into three stages:

Stage 1: crawl the web to retrieve a set of web pages [1 grade]
Use RapidMiner to crawl the web and collect web page content from the specified site.

Stage 2: build a content-based text recommender [4 grades]
First use RapidMiner to process and index the supplied set of text data, then build a content- based text recommender system, and finally answer questions 2(a) & (b) (~700 words).

Stage 3: build a recommender system to predict ratings [4 grades]
Use RapidMiner to create a collaborative filtering recommender system, and then answer questions 3(a) & 3(b) (~900 words).

a zip archive named "your_matric_number-surname.zip" and submit via Moodle.

Note: The suggested word counts are approximate and do not include any diagrams, tables or graphs you may wish to include.