Tag/Keyword based recommendation

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Published on 2010-05-08T13:37:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 13:48 UTC
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Hello I am wondering what algorithm would be clever to use for a tag driven e-commerce enviroment:

  • Each item has several tags. IE:

    Item name: "Metallica - Black Album CD", Tags: "metallica", "black-album", "rock", "music"

  • Each user has several tags and friends(other users) bound to them. IE:

    Username: "testguy", Interests: "python", "rock", "metal", "computer-science" Friends: "testguy2", "testguy3"

I need to generate recommendations to such users by checking their interest tags and generating recommendations in a sophisticated way.

Ideas:

  • A Hybrid recommendation algorithm can be used as each user has friends.(mixture of collaborative + context based recommendations).
  • Maybe using user tags, similar users (peers) can be found to generate recommendations.

  • Maybe directly matching tags between users and items via tags.

Any suggestion is welcome. Any python based library is also welcome as I will be doing this experimental engine on python language.

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