What is Learning To Rank?
As an engineer, artificial intelligence (AI) is cool. Spaceships and science fiction cool. There has been a lot of attention around machine learning and artificial intelligence lately. Some of…
We’re Bringing Learning to Rank to Elasticsearch
It’s no secret that machine learning is revolutionizing many industries. This is equally true in search, where companies exhaust themselves capturing nuance through manually tuned search relevance. Mature search…
Patterns for Elasticsearch Synonyms: Taxonomies and Managed Vocabularies
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…
Patterns for Synonyms in Elasticsearch: Keyphrases
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…
Building Recommendation Systems with Elastic Graph
As I’ve written about extensively, I strongly believe that search engines are the future of recommendation systems. The biggest reason being cost: today’s search engines require extensive amounts of…
Why I think search engines are the future of recommendation systems
Recommendation systems have often felt like costly endeavours that require machine learning expertise and large amounts of infrastructure. Search, on the other hand, increasingly feels like a commodity with…
High-Quality Recommendation Systems with Elasticsearch
Did you know technical books can have spoilers? Well ours does 🙂 and so spoiler alert: we close our book, Relevant Search, making an argument that search engine technology…
Relevant Search, Published!
Buy now with a discount! Use offer code mlturnbulllt to get 50% off for a limitted time! Elasticsearch and Solr devs take note: our book, Relevant Search is out….
Splainer: The Elasticsearch Relevance Sandbox That Tells You Why
Have you looked at a scoring explain out of Elasticsearch? Perhaps you’ve had a tricky relevance problem. You’ve needed to debug Elasticsearch’s scoring. Unfortunately the relevance scoring for Elasticsearch…
Solr vs Elasticsearch for Relevancy: Battle of the Query DSLs
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Last time on The Young and The RESTful, aka Elasticsearch vs Solr, we took…
What Does an OSC Search Relevancy Tuneup Look Like?
So you’ve stood up Solr or Elasticsearch. Your search app is humming along. However, how do you know your search understands what your users are asking for? Users are…
Solr vs Elasticsearch for Relevancy — Controlling Matching
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Solr vs Elasticsearch! There’s been a TON of posts. But has anyone ever compared…