On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Nishant Chandra <[email protected]>wrote:
> As for my use case and as Manuel pointed out is this: > > a. Given a set of page views happening in real time, will the visitor > view another page on the site or will the visitor leave or is he > comparing prices or just researching? The intention is what I want to > capture. Building the model offline sounds like the right approach. > ... To solve a), is HMM the right approach? It is a plausible approach. But not the only one. It is attractive in that it tries to model intent. You might also look at something like a latent log-linear model. That would allow you to model per user bias in intent. > b. Given a set of page views, which product brand will the visitor > view in the remainder of the session? This is an addon and I would > like to explore it. > This is a reasonable task for recommendation engines.
