Re: implementation of context-aware recommender in Mahout

2015-03-07 Thread Pat Ferrel
Ooops a several typos corrected below On Mar 7, 2015, at 7:05 AM, Pat Ferrel p...@occamsmachete.com wrote: The new cooccurrence recommender can use context as part of the user history, or as a method to bias or filter results. In any case you want to record all actions. Filtering results is

Re: implementation of context-aware recommender in Mahout

2015-03-07 Thread Efi Koulouri
Thanks for your reply! Actually, the context in pre-filtering serves as a query for selecting relevant data. An example of a contextual data filter for a movie recommender system would be: if a person wants to see a movie on Saturday, only the Saturday rating data is used to recommend movies.

Re: implementation of context-aware recommender in Mahout

2015-03-07 Thread Pat Ferrel
The new cooccurrence recommender can use context as part of the user history, or as a method to bias or filter results. In any case you want to record all actions. Filtering results is easy and tossing all data but for one day of the week will reduce your cooccurrences and the quality of your

problem in recommender similarity computation (taste)

2015-03-07 Thread Tevfik Aytekin
Hi, I've noticed a problem in the non-Hadoop (taste) version of the recommender package. The problem is in the AbstractSimilarity (in package org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.impl.similarity). This class is the base class for computing the similarity values between vectors of users or items. It