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Ben Halpern
Ben Halpern

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Anybody know of a good "recommendation engine" API?

We're in the process of improving the suggested articles/discussion around the site and I'm looking at implementation options.

The most appealing option I've found is Recombee, which seems well-designed and well-documented. We'll design this system so that we can swap this out for something else in the future, so I'm not itching to go after a lower-level API or library for the time-being. Recombee seems like a goldilox solution in terms of not being too low-level or high-level and the docs make sense.

But I'd love input if anyone has any thoughts on the matter.

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Alyss πŸ’œ

Here's a good list which includes Recombee.

Ecommerce sees a lot of roll your own personalization engines and I think Apache's open source personalization tool has a good white paper floating around their site.

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Ben Halpern

Amazing list. Thanks a lot!

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Showmax Engineering • Edited

We are heavily using Recombee within our platform. And the experience with their service is quite nice (including customer-service).

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Ben Halpern

Great to hear. Yeah I get a good vibe from them. Seems really thought out and polished. Small team doing the job well.

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Tiger333

Also using Recombee and so far working well

I've also tested out another service for 'content' recommendations - called bibblio.
So far actually not bad at all (support is a little painful, but the documentation is pretty detailed and relatively straight forward to work with)

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Tiger333

Quick Update: Service still works great although support is none-existence unfortunately
:-(

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lukaszkuczynski

If docs were stored in (or could be indexed to) Elastic,then one can make use of morelikethis type of query

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Tio Irawan

Is it only me or Recombee Personal Recommendation seems off, is there any way to set like the "most-important" attributes?