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An Open Source Direct Messaging And Enhanced Recommendation System For Yioop, Aniruddha Dinesh Mallya

Master's Projects

Recommendation systems and direct messaging systems are two popular components of web portals. A recommendation system is an information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item and a direct messaging system allows private communication between users of any platform. Yioop, is an open source, PHP search engine and web portal that can be configured to allow users to create discussion groups, blogs, wikis etc.

In this project, we expanded on Yioop’s group system so that every user now has a personal group. Personal groups were then used to add user …