Choosing your search relevance evaluation metric
Ensuring results are relevant is tricky but critical to a good search experience. Choosing an evaluationmetric to summarize the performance of the search engine can be equally challenging because…
Ensuring results are relevant is tricky but critical to a good search experience. Choosing an evaluationmetric to summarize the performance of the search engine can be equally challenging because…
The Search Network is a group of independent search professionals and companies formed in 2017 as a community of practice. The Network publishes free annual reports covering many different…
Most of you will be aware of our Haystack conference, which we currently run in April in Charlottesville, USA and in October in Europe. We’re now in our third…
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…
Welcome back, dear reader! In this post, we unwrap the mystery behind two popular search relevance metrics through visualization, and discuss their pros and cons. Our subjects for this…
Greetings! I was very fortunate to attend OpenSource Connections (OSC) Haystack Europe 2019 conference in Berlin, Germany, on October 28th, and below are my notes from the conference. Thank…
There is a growing topic in search these days. The hype of BERT is all around us, and while it is an amazing breakthrough in contextual representation of unstructured…
For the last few years I’ve run free Lucene Hackdays around the same time of year as the largest conference in our open source search sector, Activate (previously known…
Learning to Rank just seems hard. Applying Machine Learning to relevance in Solr or Elasticsearch seems non-trivial, and it seems to require a lot of crufty code and plumbing….
Today we have flipped the switch to release Quepid as an open source project, licensed under the Apache License v2.0. Come check out the source at http://github.com/o19s/quepid. What is…
MICES is a one-day, free to attend event held in Berlin just after the Berlin Buzzwords conference – it’s a combination of talks and less formal discussion sessions, run…
105 falsehoods programmers believe about search, a complex field where competence is hard-won through training, practice, and experience.