Recommendation Engines for Java applications

Question

Hi

I was wondering to know if there is any open sources recommendation engines available? It should suggest some think like amazon and netflix. I heard a framework "Apache Mahout - Taste". I am trying it next week. It would be great if we you can share your valuable thoughts.

Thanks

Answer 1

Apache Mahout is the only one I have found for this area (I have been looking recently too).

Though Weka may also be an option.

Answer 2

I'm the developer of Mahout / Taste, and hope it will do what you need, but in the interest of balanced coverage, let me also point you at:

• Duine
• CoFE
• Cofi

Answer 3

If you're looking more for the raw engine, rather than something specifically configured for amazon or netflix, then Minion provides 'document similarity measures'.