Let say user has option for selecting item based on preference such as Drama, 
Horror etc.

Can we have built implement ItemSimilarities with class?

Also I have items of video, news and shopping.  Due to low rating of news I see 
only video and shopping?

How can I get news recommended?  I am using Loglikelyhoodsimilarities.

Regards,
Cleophus P.



-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Owen [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 4:41 PM
To: Cleophus Pereira
Cc: Mahout User List
Subject: Re: Need help on Mahout Recommendation - using Preferences

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Cleophus Pereira
<[email protected]> wrote:
> You mentioned to use  IDRescorer to get data based on user preferences.  But 
> in mahout schema we have just itemid (number) and scores(double). How can we 
> determine purely based on this what is user preference.

I don't know what you mean -- there is no user preference involved
here. You are considering recommending item A to user B because it has
estimated pref value X. B has no existing pref for A or else it would
not be a candidate!

> I have implemented class IDRescorer and overrided to method - isFiltered and 
> rescorer which return results based on rating value(double).
>
> In such case do I need to get preference details for each ItemID and put 
> validation in isFiltered.  This will cause overhead while running everytime. 
> As I need to get user preferences and match with preference details for each 
> item id.
> Is this the way you recommend? If my understanding is right will not it 
> affect the performance?

You can do whatever you want in this method -- there is no *need*
about it. I can't think of a realistic use case that needs looking up
a pref.

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