I have custom implementation of ItemSimilarity.Does
GenericItemBasedRecommender.mostSimilarItems()
need preference data?
I new GenericItemBasedRecommender with the preference data model and
implementation
of ItemSimilarity,but seems mostSimilarItems() return no results.

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, it does not need preferences. Use a notion of similarity that does
> not need preferences, like LogLikelihoodSimilarity.
>
> But it sounds like you mean something different. You don't have any
> data to start, yes, so you can't determine similar items. Well yes,
> with no data at all, algorithms won't help. Don't launch this feature
> until you have some data, or, make up a standard dummy list of similar
> items to start.
>
> But it also sounds like you want to recommend to users, which is not
> the same as computing most similar items. Maybe you can clarify what
> you're doing.
>
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Sam Yang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > GenericItemBasedRecommender.mostSimilarItems() need item preference
> data,if
> > there is no preference data at start,Is there some way to get similar
> items.
> > I integrated the recommendation engine to store,but at start there is no
> > enough preference data,but we need to show recommendations for  users,so
> I
> > want to find some similar
> > items of the tem user open.
>



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