Similar Items Detector options

Text based matching options

Category attribute

popcatname

Select the attribute that represents the category from the drop-down list. This can be used to match only descriptions that belong to the same category.

Description attribute

popdescname

Select the attribute that represents the description from the drop-down list, which will be used for text matching.

Word separator

popwordsep

Select how words are separated from one of the following possibilities:

• Space

• Tab

• Newline

Minimum word length 

popminwordlen

Words that are shorter than the value entered here will not be used for text matching. This helps to eliminate words such as the, a, one, at etc.

Minimum unadjusted similarity cosine

popsimcosth

The minimum similarity of pure text matching, without considering Preferential requirements attributes.

Entering 1 means the text must be identical, 0 corresponds to no match required.

Case sensitive matching

popcasesens

If selected, the upper or lower case will be taken into consideration when matching text.

Item key attributes

popdescname

Drag and drop the nominal attributes that uniquely identify the item from the Attributes list. Instead of manually dragging and dropping attributes, they can be defined via a filtered list.

Preferential requirements attributes

mbaitemchildnames

Drag and drop the attributes which will influence the similarity score when they match. When they match, a weight is added to the similarity score. This weight is defined in the Preferential requirements weights.

These attributes could, for example, define brand, packaging or size. 

Instead of manually dragging and dropping attributes, they can be defined via a filtered list.

Ignored char list

popignoredchars

Select the characters you want to eliminate from text matching.

Preferential requirements weights

The weight awarded to matching Preferential requirements attributes.

Sales based matching options

Takes also sales data into account

popusetransactions

Select this option to include sales data in the task execution.

Minimum alternativeness coefficient

popminalternativeness

The degree of alternativeness between the purchase of two items:

• 1 (max) if they are never sold together

• 0 (min) if if one item is always sold with the other one.

If a pair of items ensures the Minimum alternativeness coefficient, the corresponding replacement rule is discarded.

Minimum volume replacement score

poprepcoeffth

The minimum percentage of orders in which a replaced item is expected to be replaceable by the replacing item. If this minimum threshold is not satisfied by a replacement rule, it is discarded.