[mythtv-users] Suggestions Using Collaborative Filtering

[osma ahvenlampi]

On 3/26/07, Andrew Wilkinson <andrewjwilkinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/26/07, osma ahvenlampi <oa at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Excellent. Do you have any ideas how to make it work with program
> > information in languages other than English? The Finnish MythTV-using
> > population not being all that large ;)
>
> As far as I know it should have no problems generating recommendations for
> any languages. There might be some issues with the encodings of the program
> titles, but they will hopefully be easy to overcome. The server's database
> is using UTF-8 so it should be able to handle and match programs on any
> language.

I tested it again, but sort of like I was expecting, got no
recommendations. My guess as to why is because of the differences in
the program info (and me probably being the only Finnish tester). It's
not the character set -- it's that the same popular programs (I'd
guess) are not called the same, so they're not recognised. Such as:
"The Shield" is called "Shield - Lain varjolla", "The Simpsons" is
"Simpsonit", etc -- nevermind something like "America's Next Top
Model" (to pick one from the girlfriend's schedule) being "Huippumalli
haussa".

Not much you can do about that, save for also creating some kind of
community-maintained title translation table, unfortunately.

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