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Relevant Search Authors Reunite at San Francisco Elastic Meetup
Two talks from the authors of Relevant Search on improving search relevance using Machine Learning
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New York City Elastic Meetup: Elasticsearch Learning to Rank
Go hands on with machine learning tools to improve relevance via Learning to Rank while also attending Haystack - the Search Relevance Conference!
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training (New York City)
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
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Learning to Rank Search
How to integrate machine learning into search via Learning to Rank models as part of the Machine Learning track....
Search Insights 2019, a new report from The Search Network
OSC have contributed to a free report on search with a chapter on The Rise of the Relevance Engineer
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Learning to Rank- Search Relevance as a Machine Learning Problem
Search relevance is how questions are answered through search. It's the process of changing the ranking of search results for a user query.
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Keeping Search Relevant in a Digital Workplace
Getting search right and producing real, relevant results for your users isn’t just a technical problem – it requires a collaborative approach from all areas of the business.
Stop Worrying about Solr vs Elasticsearch Decisions
Feature blow-by-blows of heavily configurable open source search engines don't make much sense.
Flax has joined OpenSource Connections
Flax has joined OpenSource Connections
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Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr
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Elasticsearch 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Elasticsearch
Why Haystack? Democratizing Search Relevance!
Why another search conference? Because search relevance shouldn't be locked behind obscure papers and walled gardens. It needs a community of practitioners to freely share solutions, open source tools, and best practices.
A Synonym By Any Other Name: From Alt. Labels to Knowledge Graphs
When people say they have 'synonyms' in their search engine, it can turn out to mean a lot of different things...
An Introduction to Search Quality
When considering improvements to search in a product or application it is necessary to have a vision of overall quality, which is a combination of three key areas: relevance, experience, and performance. This article explains all three at a high level and why they matter as a whole, and offers some tips to diagnose and attack a spectrum of common search quality issues.
Recap of Activate 2018
We share our thoughts on the Lucidwork's Activate 2018 conference
Relevance Engineering is Here to Stay: Haystack EU 2018 Recap
I was privileged to participate in Haystack EU 2018 - relevance engineering as a discipline is here to stay, and just about every search & discovery team is scrambling to understand this new discipline.
Think AI will solve your search problems? Ask these questions first
This search stuff sounds like work - won't AI just solve all these problems soon?
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Activate: Search and AI
*The* conference focused on Solr now adds an AI element, we've made the pilgrimage since 2010
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Edui Conference - Leveraging Open Data for Deeper Insights
Explore key considerations for leveraging your existing data in conjunction with open third-party content in order to extract valuable insights through methods of analysis and visualization.
The Missing Hello World for OpenNLP
In 2012 I first saw OpenNLP, and was both excited by it, but also appalled by the documentation. I wrote this blog post in 2012, but turns out I never actually published it! So here it is, updated for OpenNLP 1.9.0!
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Solr 'Think Like a Relevance Engineer' Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr
Exploring Solr's OpenNLP Integrations
We share our thoughts on the Solr OpenNLP Integrations
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Think Like a Relevance Engineer Training
Learn to improve search quality from the best experts in the field. From TFIDF, to Semantic Search, to Learning to Rank with Solr and Elasticsearch
Sub-phrase Highlighting in Solr
We share our attempts to implement partial phrase highlighting in Solr
Enterprise Data World 2018 Recap
Your precious data is typically an ugly unpolished gem. Enterprise Data World was all about how to polish it up! Some thoughts from a Relevancy perspective.
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Berlin Buzzwords - The Neural Search Frontier
Will search relevance be revolutionized by deep learning? Join Doug Turnbull, author of 'Relevant Search', and Tommaso Teofili, author of 'Deep Learning for Search' as we explore the budding field of Neural Search.
Why We Created Search Relevance Training
I love Solr and Elasticsearch, BUT...
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Cognitive Computing Summit - Learning To Rank
Learning to Rank (LTR) is now available for both Solr and Elasticsearch. Why is this such a hot topic? What does an organization need to leverage a Learning to Rank solution? Liz explains the LTR pipeline in terms of what is available as an off-the-shelf solution and what isn't. She discusses the challenges faced when implementing LTR and some open research areas moving forward.
Reflective Search Relevance Testing
Exploring a method of search relevance testing that doesnt suffer from drawbacks of clickstreams or expert user judgments
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Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference.
Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. Haystack is the no-holds-barred conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line.
How to Implement a Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) Ranking Quality Scorer in Quepid
A guide on how to implement, test, and deploy a Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) ranking quality scorer in Quepid.
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Cognitive Solutions day
Want to hear how the next generation of digital solutions are applying AI and Machine Intelligence to create intelligent applications, like Chatbots and Virtual Assistants?
Solr Multiterm Synonyms: avoiding sow=false surprises
We document some of the behaviors behind Solr's relatively new sow=false strategy for parsing queries and dealing with query-time synonyms
Haystack Agenda Announced!
The agenda for Haystack - the search relevance talk - has been announced!
Elasticsearch Learning to Rank 1.0.1 Released
Elastic Cloud users rejoice! Elasticsearch LTR 1.0.1 released with support for XPack Security added.
Retaining Customers
Optimizing products to build real brand fanatics - beyond just 'conversions'.
Roll your own search analytics
Search metrics are crucial, and they're easy to do.
We empower great search teams to achieve their potential
We teach some of the largest organizations how to deliver more accurate, relevant results with Solr and Elasticsearch. If search is core to your value, you should never outsource it.