A quick google search gives an on-line version of the paper: http://ssc.io/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/rec11-schelter.pdf
On 7/13/12 10:05 AM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote: >I can confirm that this is a great read. > >On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm proud to announce that a paper called 'Scalable Similarity-Based >> Neighborhood Methods with MapReduce' written by me and my colleagues at >> Technische Universität Berlin was accepted for publication at the ACM >> Conference on Recommender Systems 2012. >> >> The paper describes the algorithmic heart of Mahout's distributed >> recommender code, RowSimilarityJob, in detail and features experiments >> on various datasets, including one of the largest publicly available >> datasets from Yahoo Research, which consists of 700M ratings. >> >> http://recsys.acm.org/2012/program.html#top >> >> I will be at the conference and will be to meet anyone there interested >> in Mahout. Furthermore there will also be talk about recommendationg >> with Mahout at the RecSys Challenge workshop following the conference. >> >> Best, >> Sebastian >>
