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by srogatch 2712 days ago
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.