OK, you have some users. You have some items, and those items have attributes.
Nothing here connects users to items though, so how can any process estimate any additional user-item connections? You could compute item-item similarities, but that doesn't resolve this. Sorry I am really confused -- you have been talking about queries but saying you are not using any search. It's hard to help. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Ahmed Abdeen Hamed <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks again for the response! > > Perhaps this is a search problem I will not disagree. However, I am not > using any search of any sort. I have a bunch of items that I need to derive > "the implicit preferences" among them using their attributes (genre, > director, actor, etc). And, right now, I don't have any IR scores which is > what I try to compute. Just item-id, and user-id. And my final goal is to > have the following fields in my file to compute similarities and make > recommendations: > > item-id, user-id, score > 100, 700, 0.787 > 100, 767, 0.653 > . > . > . > > That's all I have and I don't intend to use any search components. > > Sorry if I am not making this hard for you to understand. > > -Ahmed >
