[MAHOUT-570] Make the retrieval of candidate items for the most-similar-items computation customizable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.5
• Fix Version/s: 0.5
• Assignee: Sebastian Schelter
• Reporter: Sebastian Schelter
• Created: 31/Dec/10 10:02
• Updated: 31/Jan/24 22:11
• Resolved: 03/Jan/11 08:56

Description

When retrieving the initial set of possibly similar items in GenericItemBasedRecommender.doMostSimilarItems(...) only co-occurring items are selected. We need an exchangable strategy (similar to the existing CandidateItemsStrategy) in order to make this behavior customizable.