Re: Collaborative Filtering API

2003-11-26 Thread Steven J. Owens
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:18:19PM -0500, Michael Giles wrote: Yes, he was the lead Ph.D. student on the GroupLens project at Minnesota. I've actually worked on a system that bundled GroupLens. I think it was Vignette StoryServer. The Vignette docs were incredibly dense with

Collaborative Filtering API

2003-11-25 Thread ambiesense
Hello togehter, I am asking this group because I think people here might know about this since it is a similar approach. Is there a Java based API which assist developers of collaborative filtering in their programs. With this I mean software, which does use user ratings between items and

Re: Collaborative Filtering API

2003-11-25 Thread Michael Giles
You should check out the work of Jon Herlocker at Oregon State (http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/iis/). They have written a CF engine that has been on my to-do list to check out for a few months (sounds good on paper). If you get the chance to play with it, I'd be curious to hear your feedback.

Re: Collaborative Filtering API

2003-11-25 Thread ambiesense
Hello Mike, I had a quick look over the javadoc and it looks promising, as you said. Did Jon Herlocker worked on GroupLens? I know GroupLens was quite a pioneer work in the early days of collaborative systems... Cheers Ralph You should check out the work of Jon Herlocker at Oregon State

Re: Collaborative Filtering API

2003-11-25 Thread Michael Giles
Yes, he was the lead Ph.D. student on the GroupLens project at Minnesota. -Mike At 12:18 PM 11/25/2003, you wrote: Hello Mike, I had a quick look over the javadoc and it looks promising, as you said. Did Jon Herlocker worked on GroupLens? I know GroupLens was quite a pioneer work in the early