After the very warm reception of the first year, the fourth London Information Retrieval Meetup is approaching (11/02/2020) and we are excited to add more details about our speakers and talks!The event is free and you are invited to register : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-information-retrieval-meetup-february-2020-tickets-89056738101 Our first speaker is Anna Ruggero, one of our R&D software engineers: Anna … Continue reading London Information Retrieval Meetup February
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Digging in the Solr code: 5 minutes howto
Let’s say you need to write a component, a request handler, or in general some piece of custom code that needs to be plugged into Solr. Or, you need to have a deeper understanding about some Lucene/Solr internals, following what actually happens within the code. I know: unit tests, integration tests, everything to make … Continue reading Digging in the Solr code: 5 minutes howto
Road to Rated Ranking Evaluator Enterprise
It was the spring of 2018, Andrea was strenuously working on a customer project, continuously tuning search configurations and checking the ground truth for certain queries manually. That was pretty much the standard at the time, the brilliant Quepid[1] from our friends at Open Source Connection helped in some use cases, but there was nothing … Continue reading Road to Rated Ranking Evaluator Enterprise
Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 4 – Evaluation and conclusion
This is the last post of the Entity Search with graph embeddings serie. In Part 2 and Part 3 we illustrated the core of the dissertation describing in detail the implementation of our solution pipeline. In this final part we will see some evaluation measures and results. We will draw some conclusions explaining which were … Continue reading Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 4 – Evaluation and conclusion
The Request Handlers Jungle – handleSelect and qt Parameter
The target of this blog post is to shed some light on the topic of request handlers and their relation with the QT request parameter in recent Apache Solr ( >= 7.0). Definitions A Request Handler is defined with a name and a class.It defines an API endpoint to handle and process http requests. The … Continue reading The Request Handlers Jungle – handleSelect and qt Parameter
Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 3 – Documents and retrieval
In this post we want to get to the heart of the process of virtual documents creation. As we explained in Part 1, these documents are essential for the retrieval phase and for its performances. This part of the pipeline is, indeed, the one where we create our own approaches in many different versions. Summarizing … Continue reading Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 3 – Documents and retrieval
Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 2 – Embeddings and clustering
Let's continue our journey into this entity search thesis! In Part 1 we have described what entities and entity search are. We have explained how this search is implemented in the state-of-the-art. We have also introduced the new approach of this dissertation specifying also the dataset and the test collection used. Finally we have described … Continue reading Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 2 – Embeddings and clustering
Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 1 – Overview
This series of blog posts wants to describe my master degree dissertation done with the supervision of Prof. Gianmaria Silvello at the University of Padova. The main focus of this project is in the use of graph embeddings in order to create virtual documents for the Information Retrieval Entity Search task. This thesis description is … Continue reading Entity Search with graph embeddings – Part 1 – Overview
London Information Retrieval Meetup October
After the very warm reception of the first and second edition, the third London Information Retrieval Meetup is approaching (21/10/2019) and we are excited to add more details about our speakers and talks!The event is free and you are invited to register : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-information-retrieval-meetup-october-tickets-74403100677 Our second speaker is Andrea Gazzarini, our founder and software engineer: … Continue reading London Information Retrieval Meetup October
Apache Solr ChildDocTransformerFactory: How to Build Complex ChildFilter Queries
When using nested documents and the Apache Solr Block Join functionality it is a common requirement to query for an entity (for example the parent entity) and then retrieve for each search result all(or some of) the related children. Let's see the most important aspects of such functionality and how to apply complex queries when … Continue reading Apache Solr ChildDocTransformerFactory: How to Build Complex ChildFilter Queries