Alessandro Benedetti

Director
R&D SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Search consultant

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APACHE LUCENE/SOLR COMMITTER AND PMC MEMBER
APACHE MANIFOLDCF COMMITTER
RANKLIB COMMITTER

Senior Search Software Engineer, his focus is on R&D in Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning.
He firmly believes in Open Source as a way to build a bridge between Academia and Industry and facilitate the progress of applied research.

Biography

Following his passion he entered the Apache Lucene and Solr world in 2010 becoming an active member of the community and Apache Lucene/Solr Committer.
Experience with a great variety of clients has taught him to be a proficient and professional consultant.
Recently Alessandro has worked on integrating Apache Solr’s Learning To Rank in various company ecosystems with the aim of improving search result relevancy.
Prior to that he designed and developed an enterprise semantic search engine known as Sensefy using approaches such as Named Entity Recognition at indexing time, advanced autocompletion, and document similarity metrics.

Expertise

Apache Lucene/Solr - Elasticsearch

Relevance

Semantic Search
Engines

Machine Learning

Research Topics

✓ Document Similarity
✓ Learning To Rank
✓ Query parsing and expansion
✓ Search Quality Evaluation