Re: More like *these*? (recommendation system)

[Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>]

You might also look at Mahout, and specifically Taste: http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/taste.html 
.  Of course, it is a far different approach from MLT.

-Grant

On Jul 31, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Andrew Ingram wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm trying various methods of building a user-specific product
> recommendation system and one idea is to use solr's MLT functionality.
>
> For each customer I have a list of items they've bought, and I want  
> to find
> similar items that are new to the site.
>
> The problem is that MLT operates on each result found (if I send it  
> an id,
> it will return a list for that id, if I send it lots of ids it will  
> return a
> list for EACH result), what I really want is to return a single list  
> based
> on the combined factors of all items return by the initial query.
>
> So if I search for "id:1 OR id:2 OR id:3", I want the MLT result to  
> be a
> single list of items, rather than 3 lists.
>
> Is this possible without writing a completely new handler?
>
> Regards,
> Andrew Ingram

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