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…
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?
Building AI? Learn from the era of Big Data & ask a search expert
Enterprises and others building AI face some difficult choices – but there are already many with skills and experience to help!
Generative AI in the Consumer Buying Decision Process
How can generative AI help your customers find the right product by extracting information from reviews?
Using GPT for Relevancy Judgements
Human ratings for relevance tuning are resource-intensive to generate – so could we use a large language model like GPT instead?
Approaches to field boost tuning with Learning to Rank
A guest post from the Metarank team write on field boosts, Learning to Boost and Learning to Rank
What is vector search? A guide to the new frontier
Vector search & neural search – what exactly are these new techniques, what can they do and what do you need to consider when implementing them?
Ranking Search Results by Trending Hashtags with a zero-shot classifier
How to classify movies based on trending topics using a zero-shot classifier, Kubernetes and Apache Flink
What is a Relevance Engineer?
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.
Recap of Activate 2018
This article is been a bit late, but better late than never. Activate was a fantastic conference, and Lucidworks and the Montreal Sheraton were gracious hosts. These are a…
Exploring Solr’s OpenNLP Integrations
We’ve focused most of our conversation about machine learning and search on Learning to Rank (LTR), but LTR isn’t the only machine learning tool in the Solr/Elasticsearch toolbox. LTR…
Reflective Search Relevance Testing
Many organizations find relevance testing frustrating. Often we start consulting engagements and the first problem we have to solve is “how do we test search relevance?” In this article…