Summer of Relevance: Early Bird Tickets Available!
Join me for four training days in August, going deep into improving your search relevance and learning to rank skills.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Collocations
Using simple statistical methods to find important phrases goes a surprisingly long way to improve search relevance
Solr Json API Tutorial
Moving beyond edismax with the BoolQueryParser and Solr's JSON API
Haystack 2019 day 2 - doubling down on relevance with the Relevance Avengers
A brief review of the second day of Haystack 2019, the search relevance conference
Haystack 2019 day 1 - grab your popcorn, it's Relevance Avengers time
A brief review of the first day of Haystack 2019, the search relevance conference
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Solr & Kubernetes and Lucene's More Like This at the London Lucene/Solr Meetup
Dmitri Lerko on Solr & Kubernetes and Alessandro Benedetti on Lucene's More Like This and the usual Q&A and networking
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Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference.
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.
Test-driven search relevance tuning - for free!
Quepid, the search testing tool, to become open source software from May 2019 - with a free hosted version!
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Learning to Rank Training at Haystack!
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
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Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack!
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!
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training at Haystack!
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!
Weather fork-cast: Cloudy with a chance of Elasticsearch
How Amazon forked the open source Elasticsearch project in reaction to Elastic's mixing of open source and commercial code, and what it means for users
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Relevant Search Authors Reunite at San Francisco Elastic Meetup
Two talks from the authors of Relevant Search on improving search relevance using Machine Learning
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New York City Elastic Meetup: Elasticsearch Learning to Rank
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training (New York City)
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
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Learning to Rank Search
How to integrate machine learning into search via Learning to Rank models as part of the Machine Learning track....
Search Insights 2019, a new report from The Search Network
OSC have contributed to a free report on search with a chapter on The Rise of the Relevance Engineer
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Learning to Rank- Search Relevance as a Machine Learning Problem
Search relevance is how questions are answered through search. It's the process of changing the ranking of search results for a user query.
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Keeping Search Relevant in a Digital Workplace
Getting search right and producing real, relevant results for your users isn’t just a technical problem – it requires a collaborative approach from all areas of the business.
Stop Worrying about Solr vs Elasticsearch Decisions
Feature blow-by-blows of heavily configurable open source search engines don't make much sense.
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Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
Why Haystack? Democratizing Search Relevance!
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.
A Synonym By Any Other Name: From Alt. Labels to Knowledge Graphs
When people say they have 'synonyms' in their search engine, it can turn out to mean a lot of different things...
An Introduction to Search Quality
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.
Recap of Activate 2018
We share our thoughts on the Lucidwork's Activate 2018 conference
Relevance Engineering is Here to Stay: Haystack EU 2018 Recap
I was privileged to participate in Haystack EU 2018 - relevance engineering as a discipline is here to stay, and just about every search & discovery team is scrambling to understand this new discipline.
Think AI will solve your search problems? Ask these questions first
This search stuff sounds like work - won't AI just solve all these problems soon?
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Activate: Search and AI
*The* conference focused on Solr now adds an AI element, we've made the pilgrimage since 2010
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Edui Conference - Leveraging Open Data for Deeper Insights
Explore key considerations for leveraging your existing data in conjunction with open third-party content in order to extract valuable insights through methods of analysis and visualization.
The Missing Hello World for OpenNLP
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!
We empower great search teams to achieve their potential
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.