Pete’s run into a very common problem in e-commerce search: when his users search for ‘laptop’ the first page of results is laptop accessories – how does he fix this?
Many Solr teams have gotten stumped on the new sow=false behavior. To review, sow=false (split-on-whitespace=false) changes how the query is parsed. With sow=false the query is parsed using each…
I screwed up! Mea Culpa. Let he who is without synonyms throw the first rock! In my talk Taxonomical Semantical Magical Search, I presented an index-time hypernym/hyponym expansion solution….
You have probably heard us talk about Solr multiterm synonyms a lot! It’s a big problem that prevents a lot of organizations from getting reasonable search relevance out of…
Last time on the Young and the Synonomous we discussed how users often think of key phrases like “heart attack” or “cardiac arrest” as single terms. We demonstrated how…
As I almost exclusively help folks with Solr/Elasticsearch search relevance, I often encounter the “giant list of synonyms” that a client has. This list often creates odd side effects…
There were some questions floating around the Solr mailing lists about multi-term synonyms and a few notable answers are as follows. The short version is, it’s complicated and every…
On his continuing quest to build superior e-commerce search, Pete the Product Owner establishes a baseline relevance metric
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Synonym expansion
Automatically expanding a search by adding synonyms of the query terms derived from a thesaurus.
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SKOS
Simple Knowledge Organisation System, or SKOS, is a textual data format used to structure synonyms and taxonomies. SKOS is used by many Taxonomy systems as the primary file type…
How we built a prototype vector search application for e-commerce using Jina AI at the Vector Search Hackday
OpenSearch joins Elasticsearch and Apache Solr as a serious option for powering search – but why is it different and how might the rise of vector search change the…