artificial intelligence

[Duncan Smith]

"Istvan Albert" <ialbert at mailblocks.com> wrote in message
news:K66cnf-bsuHEdM6iU-KYvg at giganews.com...
> Duncan Smith wrote:
>
> > What do Amazon use?  My guess (unless it's something really naive) would
be
> > association rules.
>
> In my previous job I worked for a research group studying recommender
> systems. We have our own, called MovieLens
>
> http://www.movielens.org
>
> among others we use a so called item-item recommender.
> We compute similarities between items then look at a
> given basket and based on it we choose to recommend the most
> similar items no yet selected. The good thing about this method
> is that item similarities are more static they don't need
> to be recomputed as often.
>
> Istvan.
>

Thanks for the link.  I'll check out some of the more likely looking papers
on the publications page.

Duncan