Abstract The earliest encounters between cinema and anthropology occurred while the former was taking its first steps latter trying to better define disciplinary profile. Among be involved Frenchman Félix Regnault, an investigator of many topics a lifelong supporter importance ethnographic cinema. Racial differences were at center his interests, although attempts highlight them yielded contradi...

Most of current recommendation systems use numerical ratings to suggest a content (e.g. movie, restaurant) to a user. Instead, we apply probabilistic topic models to text reviews. We profile contents in a latent space where we compute distances that can be used for cold start recommendation.

Collaborative filtering systems are probably the most known recommendation techniques in the recommender systems field. They have been deployed in many commercial and academic applications. However, these systems still have some limitations such as cold start and sparsty problems. Recently, exploiting semantic web technologies such as social recommendations and semantic resources have been inve...

Various forms of Peer-Learning Environments are increasingly being used in post-secondary education, often to help build repositories of student generated learning objects. However, large classes can result in an extensive repository, which can make it more challenging for students to search for suitable objects that both reflect their interests and address their knowledge gaps. Recommender Sys...