Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-mahout-user-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: (qmail 95317 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2009 15:32:52 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Nov 2009 15:32:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 74039 invoked by uid 500); 5 Nov 2009 15:32:52 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-mahout-user-archive@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 74011 invoked by uid 500); 5 Nov 2009 15:32:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mahout-user-help@lucene.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: mahout-user@lucene.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list mahout-user@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 74001 invoked by uid 99); 5 Nov 2009 15:32:52 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:32:52 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of srowen@gmail.com designates 74.125.78.27 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.125.78.27] (HELO ey-out-2122.google.com) (74.125.78.27) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:32:49 +0000 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 22so47174eye.3 for ; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:32:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Inkpmnnx/9RpfbkOJiQc/pib7ry9QMBOg2JaNDmZYQA=; b=xyH5eICZj05Iur1nEn53LdFD3On3I/MeVCWBoZrTp7eEHSJWD8YuR3oGrsZnM0s/aR iXhViREHb4bT5vI8h5qlaPOQ+o8JcqZKfzbQu1SZXR4YfsVA7VvyDiqSbQno0glzlCcx aqHQ+7Ahm/ksQy5hF/PnbEQGbEWLH8LGXwe30= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=j6Bf0EF3CzeWmaqkfpt01RGDeuJG42f9zmSlMZXfqzL5e22FvvHqQHkBD8CCsu2SpP /6HkYTMWtDi0hNrjjsUSK9hZZ4UwSZWcimTwz0Oq09wW4uvt2QJfAQDXo1wmv74tdVZ4 DAcmaRfdbKLCE4fu6VcBgtzyUzpwX8n6pHZ/8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.85.134 with SMTP id u6mr956062wee.213.1257435148579; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:32:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <826285.26577.qm@web111805.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <394845f40911040422s4639e475ve574aac8348bf7d2@mail.gmail.com> <394845f40911050406r3dd11ddfu24fe95039f6755fd@mail.gmail.com> <394845f40911050508m13c3a4f2teb90d76285df8e5d@mail.gmail.com> <394845f40911050528w770a9c60i851b4fa1444fadf2@mail.gmail.com> <394845f40911050616kf84a764u64e76281ccc16eb3@mail.gmail.com> <826285.26577.qm@web111805.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:32:28 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: problems with GenericRecommenderIRStatsEvaluator: From: Sean Owen To: mahout-user@lucene.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable You are correct, but no that is not what's in question here. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:45 PM, James James w= rote: > -->=C2=A0 My understanding is that the returned recommendentation list is= a ranked list of items based on their predicted scores. > Even under the setting of the boolean, each candidate item to be recommen= ded gets a different predicted score. So I think that you are right they ar= e also ranked.