Including "Unrecommendable" Items

2011-07-18 Thread Jamey Wood
Is there any best practice for including user preferences for certain items as a Recommender input, but ensuring that those items are never included in actual recommendations? For example, suppose that Amazon wanted to produce book recommendations for you. They might still want to include your no

Re: Including "Unrecommendable" Items

2011-07-18 Thread Sean Owen
Yes just include the item in the DataModel but filter it at runtime with a Rescorer. This sounds like exactly what you are looking for. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Jamey Wood wrote: > Is there any best practice for including user preferences for certain items > as a Recommender input, but e

Re: Including "Unrecommendable" Items

2011-07-18 Thread Ted Dunning
I usually just post process the recommendations using a variety of business logic rules. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 18, 2011, at 14:26, Jamey Wood wrote: > Is there any best practice for including user preferences for certain items > as a Recommender input, but ensuring that those items are n

Re: Including "Unrecommendable" Items

2011-07-18 Thread Sean Owen
(PS that's exactly Rescorer's role... just a hook for whatever biz logic you want to filter by) On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > I usually just post process the recommendations using a variety of business > logic rules.

Re: Including "Unrecommendable" Items

2011-07-18 Thread Ted Dunning
Yes... I always forget about that. You must have mentioned this half a dozen times. On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > (PS that's exactly Rescorer's role... just a hook for whatever biz > logic you want to filter by) > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Ted Dunning > wrote:

Re: Including "Unrecommendable" Items

2011-07-18 Thread Jamey Wood
Great. Thank you both! --Jamey On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > (PS that's exactly Rescorer's role... just a hook for whatever biz > logic you want to filter by) > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Ted Dunning > wrote: > > I usually just post process the recommendations u