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Adaptive recommendation explanations

  • US 7,860,811 B2
  • Filed: 06/15/2008
  • Issued: 12/28/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2004
  • Status: Expired
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1. A computer-based recommendation method comprising:

  • generating an affinity vector between a first user of a computer-based system and a plurality of computer-based objects based, at least in part, on the first user'"'"'s behaviors;

    generating a similarity metric between the first user and a second user of the computer-based system based, at least in part, on the affinity vector of the first user and an affinity vector of the second user;

    generating a recommendation for delivery to the first user based, at least in part, on the affinity vector of the first user and the similarity metric; and

    generating an explanation for the recommendation comprising one or more phrases, wherein the selection of the one or more phrases is based, at least in part, on a plurality of user behaviors and in accordance with a computer-implemented syntactical structure.

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