[topicmapmail] An Idea about TopicMap intelligent views

[Max Voskob]

If the computer ranks the topics by popularity you simply subject the
viewers to the peer pressure and any odd one who happened to look for
something out of the mainstream will struggle coz it always brings the most
popular stuff up (sex, celebs, news, ...people who bought this book also
bought that, that and that...).

I guess this discussion is not for this forum as it goes beyond the scope of
XTM into something more generic.

Cheers,
Max


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Lischke" <lischke@ivs.tu-berlin.de>
To: <topicmapmail@infoloom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] An Idea about TopicMap intelligent views


> Max Voskob wrote:
>
> >Stefan,
> >
> >If you always return topics within the local context only, how do I find
> >topics that relate to where I am, but are out of the context?
> >Say, I am hungry and click on orders, but what I actually mean is to
order
> >an appetite reducing pill coz I'm going to loose weight. Suppose, it is
out
> >of context. Do I have to go back to the begining of my path or shall I
reset
> >the context?
> >
> >
> In our discussion yesterday, we thought of something like a context
> stack. If we think of a real GUI i can imagine such a stack list in the
> lower left corner. if u click on one of items in the context it
> disappears. But in real the Context isn't a stack its a
> Graph/TopicMapFragment too.
>
> And now i come to your second part, the adaption.
> We thought of a neural net, that learns, what topics are clicked often,
> and learns the pathes often traversed in the TopicMap.
> With this neural net another intelligent way of creating Views is
> provided. With such a neural net statistical inference can be done and
> new associations can be proposed to the user.
>
> You are right, sometimes the prediction the systems mades is total
> bulls**** so there has to be a "slap" button :-)
> But we always came to the conclusion, the computer cannot know what you
> want. You should download your brain first :-)
>
> stefan
>
>
>
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