[jira] [Created] (UNOMI-232) Add ability to discover similar users.

["Casey Sybrandy (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Casey Sybrandy created UNOMI-232:
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             Summary: Add ability to discover similar users.
                 Key: UNOMI-232
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UNOMI-232
             Project: Apache Unomi
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: core
    Affects Versions: 1.3.0-incubating
            Reporter: Casey Sybrandy


Hello,

We are currently prototyping a system and one of the pieces of functionality that's been requested is the ability to find users that are similar to each other.  For example, if this is a site for allowing people to search for research papers, the site can recommend other users based on my searches, which could be tracked via Unomi, so that I may be able to contact them and see if they're performing similar research and potentially collaborate.  Currently we are accessing ElasticSearch to do this because while there is a search API in Unomi, we can't control the ranking by prioritizing certain fields over others.

Ideally, the endpoint should:
 # Allow the developer to specify which fields should be used for matching users.
 # Allow the developer to adjust the ranking of the results by prioritizing certain fields over others.
 # Return the results in order of best match to worst match with the ability to limit the number of results.

Thanks.



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