RecLab: a system for eCommerce recommender research with real data, context and feedback

  • Authors:
  • Darren Erik Vengroff

  • Affiliations:
  • Rich Relevance, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce RecLab, a system designed to enable developers to build and test recommendation algorithms for eCommerce websites. RecLab supports a variety of context and feedback that recommenders can take advantage of to improve the quality of their recommendations. RecLab is unique in that recommenders built on top of RecLab APIs can run in the RichRelevance cloud environment in addition to working with offline data sets. This environment provides on-site recommendations to some of the largest eCommerce sites in existence. By running in the cloud, we are able to avoid the pitfalls that have historically made it difficult for researchers to work with real data and live traffic. We bring code to data, rather than bringing sensitive merchant data to code running outside the cloud. Peer-reviewed recommenders built with RecLab will be chosen to run in the cloud on live data, given their authors unprecedented feedback into their performance in situ.