Could I ask everybody who had trouble with my prose help me out by commenting on the design document? That way I can record the improvements that would make it clear.
My apologies for only allowing commenting, but I find it easier to make sure all comments get in because there is a very nice tracking capabilities in google docs for comments. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > Exactly what I was trying to say. Excellently clear way to put it all. > > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:38 PM, B Lyon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This is pulled out of one of Ted's inline responses to the recent Setting >> up a recommender thread, and was hoping to confirm some things... Most of >> which may end up being a restatement of what he and others have said in >> the >> first place. >> >> It seems that you would have a "document" in solr for each thing T that >> can >> be recommended, and each such thing would have a (solr) field for each >> type >> of item-item similarity you come up with ( llr from cooccurrence, the >> cross >> type stuff, whatever). Each such solr field consists of a list of the >> items "similar" to the particular item T for that field's notion of >> similarity. >> >> The "recent behavior as a query" means that we see which items the user >> has >> recently "interacted with" (clicked, viewed, or is somehow associated >> with), and search the solr field(s) with those items used in the solr >> query >> to find other items T to recommend. >> > >
