SIGIR LiveRAG Challenge Report
This year’s SIGIR conference featured the “LiveRAG Challenge”. In this competition participants received 500 questions synthesized from a given corpus (FineWeb10BT) and had 2 hours time to generate answers…
A/B Testing with Team Draft Interleaving
A proof of concept in Chorus OpenSearch Edition TL;DR: Team draft interleaving provides a path to faster A/B testing. Our proof of concept implementation within the Chorus Ecommerce search…
What do nDCG and ERR model in Quepid?
Quepid has provided an implementation of nDCG for quite some time now and has added an implementation of ERR in version 8.0. As both of these metrics use multi-valued…
Vector Search: Navigating Recall and Performance
Vector similarity search (or “dense retrieval” when text embeddings are involved) has gained widespread popularity over the last few years. It has become a fundamental component in various applications,…
Dogfights in Open Source Search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch
I’ve had some interesting conversations over the last few months around the three big hitters of open source search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. Solr is the old dog in…
Lead Author of “AI-Powered Search” Trey Grainger joins OSC team
The Next Generation of Search at OpenSource Connections In 2016 Manning published Relevant Search, co-written by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman. Unlike most books on the subject of ‘search’…
When Zero Search Results is the right answer (& how to measure this in Quepid)
Sometimes a query should produce zero search results – but how do we score this correctly in Quepid, the search relevance workbench?
More Query Understanding: Brand Detection with LLMs
Are your users searching for particular brands? Can we use LLMs for brand detection and use this to improve search & drive business?
So you want better OpenSearch documentation?
Eric Pugh and Heather Halter discuss how we can improve OpenSearch documentation after a Lightning Talk at OpenSearchCon EU
What we learned about tracking user behavior at Haystack & OpenSearchCon
Here’s what people at two recent conferences thought about UBI, an open source solution for tracking user behavior we’re working on with the OpenSearch team
Haystack US 2024 – a review by the winners of the Hughes Scholarship
A review of Haystack US 2024, the search relevance conference, by the three winners of the Hughes Scholarship.
How to get the best from a search conference (updated)
Search conference veteran Charlie Hull lists the different kinds of search conference and how you can get the most from them