Informed recommender: basing recommendations on consumer product reviews

Recommender systems attempt to predict items in which a user might be interested, given some information about the user's and items' profiles. Most existing recommender systems use content-based or collaborative filtering methods or hybrid methods that combine both techniques (see the sidebar for more details). We created Informed Recommender to address the problem of using consumer opinion about products, expressed online in free-form text, to generate product recommendations. Informed recommender uses prioritized consumer product reviews to make recommendations. Using text-mining techniques, it maps each piece of each review comment automatically into an ontology

Recommender System Based on Consumer Product Reviews

Consumer reviews, opinions and shared experiences in the use of a product is a powerful source of information about consumer preferences that can be used in recommender systems. Despite the importance and value of such information, there is no comprehensive mechanism that formalizes the opinions selection and retrieval process and the utilization of retrieved opinions due to the difficulty of extracting information from text data. In this paper, a new recommender system that is built on consumer product reviews is proposed. A prioritizing mechanism is developed for the system. The proposed approach is illustrated using the case study of a recommender system for digital cameras

Les Pratiques sociales: un référent d’intérêt pour des apprentissages signifiants et durables

Dans ce texte, nous allons vous faire part d’une expérience de didactisation des savoirs en économie par l’utilisation d’une pratique sociale. Cette expérimentation s’est déroulée à l’hiver 2008 avec des élèves en quatrième session du programme Sciences humaines. L’approche consistait à choisir une pratique sociale suffisamment riche pour permettre aux étudiants d’utiliser des connaissances acquises dans un premier cours en économie, mais également produire des connaissances. Le choix s’est porté sur la présentation d’un mémoire auprès d’experts dont l’objet est de traiter d’une question socialement vive