Wessel Sandtke
Typewriter repairman turned Machine Learning Engineer, now working for Bookarang, a Dutch startup working with Dutch libraries to improve the recommendations for its members.
Wrote several picture books, but is not allowed to boost those in the recommendation system.
Sessions
09-14
13:30
30min
Don’t judge a book by its cover: Using LLM created datasets to train models that detect literary features
Wessel Sandtke
Existing book recommendation systems like Goodreads are based on correlating the reading habits of people. But what if you want a humorous book? Or a book that is set in 19th century Paris? Or a thriller, but without violence?
We build book recommendation systems for Dutch libraries based on more than a dozen features from historical setting, to writing style, to main character characteristics. This allows us to tailor each recommendation to individual readers.
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