Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-10 Thread Marius Rabenarivo
My items are products with name and description and maybe caption extracted from the image too. 2017-05-11 0:12 GMT+04:00 Pat Ferrel : > What are your items? How much text? What other content? Unless you are > recommending long for blogs or news NLP won’t give you much except maybe > word2vec, wh

Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-10 Thread Pat Ferrel
What are your items? How much text? What other content? Unless you are recommending long for blogs or news NLP won’t give you much except maybe word2vec, which, if it has a good model, will give better than bag-of-words. On May 10, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Marius Rabenarivo wrote: So in you opinion

Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-10 Thread Marius Rabenarivo
So in you opinion, do you think that the NLP task should be done in the Engine part using a library like mallet or should be implemented in algorithm focused library : mahout? 2017-05-10 23:52 GMT+04:00 Pat Ferrel : > That is how to make personalized content-based recommendations.You’d have > to

Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-10 Thread Pat Ferrel
That is how to make personalized content-based recommendations.You’d have to input content by attaching it to items and recording it separately as a usage event per content bit. The input , for instance would be every term in the description of an item the user purchased. The input would be huge

Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-10 Thread Marius Rabenarivo
Hello, So to what does the matrix T and vector h_t in this slide match to? : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MzIGFsATNeAYnLfoR6797ofcLeFRKSX7KB8GAYNtNPY/edit#slide=id.gf4d43b9e8_1_24 2017-05-10 21:10 GMT+04:00 Pat Ferrel : > Content based recommendations are based on, well, content. You

Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-10 Thread Pat Ferrel
Content based recommendations are based on, well, content. You can really only make recs if you have an example item as with the recommendations you see at the bottom of product page on Amazon. For this make sure t have lots of properties of items, even keywords from descriptions will work, but

Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-10 Thread Dennis Honders
According to the docs, the UR is considered as hybrid collaborative filtering / content-based filtering. In my case I have a purchase history. Quite a lot of products are never bought so traditional techniques won't be able to make recommendations. For those products (never bought/sold), will recom

Re: Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-08 Thread Pat Ferrel
yes to all for UR v0.5.0 UR v0.6.0 is sitting in the `develop` branch waiting for one more minor fix to be released. It uses the latest release of Mahout 0.13.0 so no need to build it for the project. Several new features too. I expect it to be out this week. On May 8, 2017, at 3:07 AM, Dennis

Docs Universal Recommender

2017-05-08 Thread Dennis Honders
Hi, Are the following docs up-to-date? PredictionIO: http://actionml.com/docs/pio_quickstart. Is version 0.11.0 suitable for UR? The UR: http://actionml.com/docs/ur. Is 0.5.0 the latest version? Is Mahout still necessary? Thanks, Dennis