It’s not technology that’s holding back AI … What’s missing? Search skills. You’re missing the ‘search’ part of the ‘AI team’. The search skills gap is a hidden, under-resourced bottleneck leading to project delays and poor execution.
A relevance engineer is a key, and often missing component of the search team, implementing information retrieval algorithms that solve user information needs in real time, at scale.
couple your generators with context managers! As part of my AI Powered Search chapters, I’m cleaning up Hello LTR’s Python API to make the code more readable as book examples. A big part…
As a contributor to AI Powered Search I’m struck by how often organizational, rather than technical, challenges stymie machine learning adoption. Let’s explore one of those challenges: silos between…
Does anyone else remember the Segway? Segway was billed as the most revolutionary transportation innovation, well, ever. We would use it instead of cars; instead of biking and walking….
Are you migrating from Google Search Appliance, Endeca, or some other legacy search solution to Solr or Elasticsearch? Want to prove the migration succeeded without worrying about lost customers,…
As search professionals, we’re often lost in our everyday minutiae. We don’t appreciate the impact of our work on everyday lives. The data shows that when users encounter non-trivial…
I’m sure if you run in search or NLP circles, you’ve heard of BERT. It’s what Google famously used to improve 1 out of 10 searches, in what they…
Summary Search relevance expert Doug Turnbull revisits the concept of search relevance, exploring why people disagree on what makes results relevant. Using “Rocky” vs “Rocky Horror Picture Show” as…
In a search engine, the “document” is the basic unit of indexing and retrieval. It’s the “result” on the search results screen when a user enters a query. Many…
In August’s Summer of Relevance we took 19 attendees through intense, small-class search relevance training workshops – including “Think Like a Relevance Engineer” and “Hello LTR – Learning to…
I want to share something powerful I’ve learned from my journey into designing a successful search ranking systems; an area I don’t think most search practitioners are really thinking…
