[mythtv] Feature Request

Ramon Redondo malinon at mchsi.com
Wed Mar 5 08:58:46 EST 2003


All of the Actor and Genre information _is_ in IMDB, but I suspect it
would take a bit of processing to parse through their data, not to mention
identifying the show's entry in the first place (just try looking up the 
television
show 24...).

Andy Davidoff wrote:

>There is no support for multiple genres in the database.  We could
>add this easily, though I'm not sure how useful it would be without
>our own addition of categorization hints.  In my tests[0], the "missing"
>categories are things like
>	"Adventure" from "Action/Adventure"
>or	"Fitness" from "Health/Fitness"
>or	"Tabloid" from "Talk/Tabloid"
>
>It's not clear that storing multiple genres really buys us anything
>without a better quality data source[0].
>
>I agree that the Naive Bayes is a good place to start if we're going
>to pursue statistical NLP, but I really doubt it can be effective on
>this problem without some sort of additional training data (thesaurus?).
>Our corpus is pretty small and the sentence fragments we do have are
>relatively short and not very descriptive or specific.
>
>I think getting actor information would really go a long way toward
>improving performance of suggestions, but where can we get such data?
>
>[0] This only applies to my data from tv_grab_na.
>
>
>#if Robert Middleswarth /* Mar 04, 18:25 */
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>
>>Does Myth have genre info coming in thought XMLTV?  The Best I could 
>>think we could do is base it off the summarys for the shows.  Use a 
>>method like a  Naive Bayes to teach myth what you like and don't like.
>>    
>>
>#endif /* robert at middleswarth.net */
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