Also, if you use the search engine method for deploying your engine, you can simply put categories on your items and use a boolean search to limit the results of recommendations.
The same is useful for geo-limited recommendations. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi Mouthgalya, > > If you use ItembasedRecommender.mostSimilarItems() to query the similar > items ("recommendations for an item"), then you can provide a > Rescorer<LongPair> to filter out items that should not be returned > (e.g., by checking the categories to which they belong). > > --sebastian > > On 21.06.2013 21:42, Mouthgalya Ganapathy wrote: > > Hi, > > For item based recommendations in Mahout, is there a way to get > recommendations from a selected Product category? > > For example: > > Product category A: Product1, Product2, Product3 > > Product Category B: Product4, Product5, Product6 > > > > Recommendations for product 2 should be only from category A i.e. > Product 1 and 3.So recommendations should be only within the product > category. > > Is this possible? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Mouthgalya > > > >
