Yes that's true. What we have now is a mostly pure CF framework, but, as you say, with some creative application it does something like content-based recommendation.
I'd like to emphasize this angle in the writeup, while also admitting that there is more one could do with content-based approaches than this. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that with a slight bit of creative rewriting of results you can > probably do some pretty fancy content based work with the current software. > > Take the music example again. Take items as artists *or* albums *or* > tracks. Explode the track listening history of a user into a mixed list of > artists, albums and tracks. Recommend to users as usual to get a mixed list > of different kinds of items. You might stop there and just display a > heterogeneous list of things, but you could also slide through the list and > replace artists with a popularity ranked list of their tracks, albums with > something similar and then reduce duplicates, boosting items that get > multiple credit. If you claim that the duplicate reduction is part of the > presentation layer, then Taste as it stands can probably do fairly involved > content based recommendations.
