Pete solves the e-commerce search accessories problem with boosting & synonyms
Pete’s run into a very common problem in e-commerce search: when his users search for ‘laptop’ the first page of results is laptop accessories – how does he fix this?
How does Pete, the e-commerce search product manager, build a web shop?
How to use a collection of open source, freely available software components we’ve named Chorus to build a complete, tuneable, testable online shop
Meet Pete, the e-commerce search product manager.
Meet Pete. Pete’s in trouble. Pete’s just been hired as Product Manager for Search at electronics retailer Chorus Electronics. His boss, a Vice President, has asked him to build…
Haystack Is Back! Go virtual for relevant search talks, workshops, discussions & training
When the COVID-19 crisis hit back in early March we were already planning our annual Haystack US conference – hoping to welcome 150 relevance specialists to Charlottesville in late…
Think Like a (Remote) Relevance Engineer with our new online training
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, like everyone else we’ve been rapidly adjusting to the new reality of most if not all of our work having to…
What problem does BERT hope to solve for search?
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…
It’s okay to run Tika (and Tesseract!) inside of Solr ;-) If and Only If….
Recently I saw this post on solr-user mailing list asking about running Tika for text extraction in Solr, which if you follow the thread led to chorus of people…
What happens at a Lucene/Solr Hackday
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…
Announcing Relevance Cornucopia – How Natural Language Search completes Learning to Rank
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…
Diversity vs. Relevance in Search Systems
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…
How You Can Use Hello LTR – The Learning to Rank Sandbox
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….
Quepid is now an Open Source project!
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…