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"Out of a constantly expanding universe of information, firefly will recommend sites you'll like and connect you to people who like what you like. First you give your opinion of a range of Web sites, then firefly finds other people who share those interests. You can interact with these neighbors, or have firefly recommend sites based on what they and you like. It's an automated, worldwide word-of-mouth system."
"Automated Collaborative Filtering is a technique for providing recommendations (or
dis-recommendations) based on statistical matches of peoples' evaluations of a set of objects in some domain. It has been developed and explored at the MIT Media Lab and used in a number of recommendation systems, such as HOMR, WEBHOUND and Firefly. Typical domains might be movies, books, web pages, or TV shows. An evaluation of an object is typically a simple scalar value, such as an integer from zero to ten or a real between 0.0 and 1.0, and might represent the degree to which the person "likes" the object. An ACF system maintains a database of users and keeps records of items they have evaluated. The set evaluations a person has made form a vector and represents that person's opinions. These evaluation vectors are compared to the vectors provided by other users and people with similar opinions can be discovered. From this, one can predict the evaluations a person might make for new objects in the domain. 12/11/96" |
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