A game recommender engine like Akinator

probqa.com

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An application of the probabilistic question-asking system is now available as a website: http://probqa.com/ . Here users can find the next game to play without knowing its name or keywords. The users only need to answer questions, and the program lists the top recommendations for each user.

The engine that powers the website is supposed to work similarly to a popular game Akinator, where the user thinks of a character, and the program asks questions to guess about the user's secret character.

In ProbQA there is no secret: the user simply doesn't know exactly what he/she wants. So the program asks questions to come up with something suitable for the user.

Please, let me know your thoughts about the website and the engine.

Does it have a hard coded database of games, or can users suggest new titles themselves?

The database isn't hard-coded. The game information like name and URL is stored in SQL DB. The statistics is stored in engine's knowledge base. Currently only admins can enter games to the system. You can suggest a game by sending me an email: serge.rogatch@gmail.com with "ProbQA" in the subject.

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