Pat,

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Pat Ferrel <[email protected]> wrote:

> So the XML as CSV would be:
> item_id,similar_items,cross_action_similar_items
> ipad,iphone,iphone nexus
> iphone,ipad,ipad galaxy
>

Right.  Doesn't matter what format.  Might want quotes around space
delimited lists, but anything will do.


>
> Note: As I mentioned before the order of the items in the field will
> encode rank of the similarity strength. This is for cases where you want to
> find similar items to a context item. You would fetch the doc for the
> context item by it's item ID and show the top k items in the doc. Ted's
> caveat would probably be to dither them.
>

I always say "dither" so that is an easy one.

But fetching similar items of a center item by fetching the center item and
then fetching each of the referenced items is typically slower by about 2x
than running the search for mentions of the center item.


> Sounds like Ted is generating data. Andrew or M Lyon do either of you want
> to set the demo system up? If so you'll need to find a system--free tier
> AWS, Ted's box, etc. Then install all the needed stuff.
>
> I'll get the output working to csv.
>
> On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Pat Ferrel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> OK and yes. The docs will look like:
>
> <add>
>    <doc>
>       <field name='item_id'>ipad</field>
>       <field name='similar_items'>iphone</field>
>       <field name='cross_action_similar_items'>iphone nexus</field>
>    </doc>
>   <doc>
>     <field name='item_id'>iphone</field>
>     <field name='similar_items'>ipad</field>
>     <field name='cross_action_similar_items'>ipad galaxy</field>
>   </doc>
> </add>
>
>
> On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:42 AM, B Lyon <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm interested in helping as well.
> Btw I thought that what was stored in the solr fields were the llr-filtered
> items (ids I guess) for the could-be-recommended things.
>
>

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