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 <jamey.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 non-book purchases as inputs to > the Recommender (as your taste in DVDs might be quite relevant, for > example). But they would never want those non-book items to show up as > recommendation outputs (for this particular scenario). Is there some > elegant way to accomplish this with Mahout? Or would you just need to > implement your own post-processing logic to remove the non-book items? Or > is this all a bad idea in general? > > Thanks, > Jamey >
