Why Haystack? Democratizing Search Relevance!

Doug Turnbull — January 7, 2019

Why another search conference? Because search relevance shouldn't be locked behind obscure papers and walled gardens. It needs a community of practitioners to freely share solutions, open source tools, and best practices.

An Introduction to Search Quality

Max Irwin — November 19, 2018

When considering improvements to search in a product or application it is necessary to have a vision of overall quality, which is a combination of three key areas: relevance, experience, and performance. This article explains all three at a high level and why they matter as a whole, and offers some tips to diagnose and attack a spectrum of common search quality issues.

The Missing Hello World for OpenNLP

Eric Pugh — October 4, 2018

In 2012 I first saw OpenNLP, and was both excited by it, but also appalled by the documentation. I wrote this blog post in 2012, but turns out I never actually published it! So here it is, updated for OpenNLP 1.9.0!

Enterprise Data World 2018 Recap

Eric Pugh — June 14, 2018

Your precious data is typically an ugly unpolished gem. Enterprise Data World was all about how to polish it up! Some thoughts from a Relevancy perspective.

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Berlin Buzzwords - The Neural Search Frontier

Doug Turnbull — June 10, 2018

Will search relevance be revolutionized by deep learning? Join Doug Turnbull, author of 'Relevant Search', and Tommaso Teofili, author of 'Deep Learning for Search' as we explore the budding field of Neural Search.

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Cognitive Computing Summit - Learning To Rank

Elizabeth Haubert — May 22, 2018

Learning to Rank (LTR) is now available for both Solr and Elasticsearch. Why is this such a hot topic? What does an organization need to leverage a Learning to Rank solution? Liz explains the LTR pipeline in terms of what is available as an off-the-shelf solution and what isn't. She discusses the challenges faced when implementing LTR and some open research areas moving forward.

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Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference.

Eric Pugh — April 10, 2018

Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. Haystack is the no-holds-barred conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line.

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Cognitive Solutions day

Eric Pugh — February 23, 2018

Want to hear how the next generation of digital solutions are applying AI and Machine Intelligence to create intelligent applications, like Chatbots and Virtual Assistants?

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LuceneRevolution 2017

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*The* conference focused on Solr, we've made the pilgrimage since 2010

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We teach some of the largest organizations how to deliver more accurate, relevant results with Solr and Elasticsearch. If search is core to your value, you should never outsource it.

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Upcoming Events

  • Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training January 29th-January 30th, 2019 | Charlottesville, VA
    Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
  • Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training January 31st-February 1st, 2019 | Charlottesville, VA
    Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr
  • Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack! April 22nd-April 23rd, 2019 | Charlottesville, VA
    Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
  • Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack! April 22nd-April 23rd, 2019 | Charlottesville, VA
    Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
  • Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference. April 24th-25th, 2018 | Charlottesville, VA
    Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. Haystack is the no-holds-barred conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line.