We use module title together with the word "module" to find related discussions on a module page. Take the "image" module for example, all forum posts that have the text string "image module" would be considered as a match. But it has another problem. People sometimes refer to a module using an alias (eg.cck) rather than the exact module title plus the word "module" (eg. content construction kit module). To fix that problem, we manually add links between modules and their commonly used aliases so that the algorithm can spot the right match. So, for those modules that we should have (but didn't have) added an alias, the "related discussions" doesn't display as many links as it should. The problem is fixed (we hope) when we add the aliases, In short, every recommendation algorithm has its own pros and cons. We hope to launch this project as one of the approaches to make module recommendations to DO users. And we'll continue to improve the algorithm based on feedbacks. Thanks. Daniel On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Nancy Wichmann <nan_wich@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Daniel Xiaodan Zhou wrote:
We are working on the "pivots" project as an attempt to give module recommendations. The idea is to
display on a module page the related forum conversations and related modules that are referenced in
the same conversations.
I looked at a couple of my modules. The "recent discussions" didn't even reference my modules. It is unlikely the "referenced modules" really have any significance either. This could be damaging in the eyes of those who fail to research, which seems to be the vast majority of DO users.
Please do NOT open it up to the general public in the condition it's in now.
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