Strategies for providing diverse recommendations

Details Strategies for providing diverse recommendations Strategies for providing diverse recommendations

2005-10-31

2009-06-02

Holmes, Michael B (Department: 2129)

Data processing: artificial intelligence

Knowledge processing system

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ABSTRACT:
Strategies are described for generating recommendations. The strategies generate a set of original recommendations based on a source of information. The strategies then transform the set of original recommendations into a set of similarity-spaced recommendations based on “repulsion force” analysis applied to the set of original recommendations. In a first implementation, the set of spaced recommendations represent a diverse sampling of items in the set of original recommendations. In a second implementation, the set of spaced recommendations represent a sampling of items in the set of original recommendations which omits or excludes recommendations assessed as obvious. A third implementation can combine the first and second implementations.

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