Yeah this is embodied in the "IDRescorer" class which lets you influence the final recommendations however you want, for just this sort of reason.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have some non-release-related offtopic questions ;) > > I've attended an interesting talk last week given by the CTO of > moviepilot.de (a German movie recommendation platform). The talk included a > concept which he called "context-aware" recommendations, which means that > you not only recommend items that a user might like, but you also factor in > the users current context. The example in the talk was that a romantic > evening needs other movie recommendations than an evening with a couple of > guys drinking beer. > > I found this concept very appealing and I thought about whether and how this > could be accomplished with our current recommender framework. > > My idea would be to define some content-related rules like "a movie tagged > with the category action is not suited for the context romantic evening" and > use these rules to create some kind of context-aware Rescorer that only > selects items matching the rules from all recommended items. > > Would this be a viable approach? > > --sebastian >
