You can create an item-item similarity metric (ItemSimilarity) that implements whatever rule you want, yes. Then you can use it with an item-based recommender. In that sense it does, but, of course you have to write your rule. It doesn't exist in the project.
It also has a Rescorer abstraction which lets a caller filter or reorder recommendations according to whatever logic you can write in java code. 2011/2/22 António Lemos <[email protected]>: > Hi Sean, > > Thanks a lot for your fast reply. > Regarding the recommendations based on explicit rules, basically it's > something like, if someone reads an article about incidents in Turkey I want > an explicit recommendation to the article related to incidents in Egypt. > Does Mahout handle explicit rules? > > Best regards, > AL
