This blog is a quick summary of my (subjective) experience at Haystack 2019 : the Search Relevance Conference, hosted in Charlottesville (Virginia, USA) from 24/04/2019 to 25/04/2019.References to the slides will be updated as soon as they become available. First of all my feedback on the Haystack Conference is extremely positive.From my perspective the conference…
The Information Retrieval Meetup is a free evening meetup hosted by Sease and aimed to Information Retrieval passionates and professionals.
Tag and Exclusion for Apache Solr Faceting is often misused. Here’s a guide in an optimal utilisation with focus on ACL filtering scenarios.
How faceting is calculated in Apache Solr distributed architectures. It presents inner details explanation and practical examples.
In this post we’ll cover two additional synonyms scenarios and we’ll try to summarise all previous tips in a coincise form.
Synonyms and Stopwords: how to deal with missing synonym detection when the original text contains some “intruder” stopword?
How can we manage synonyms and stopwords at query time? In this article we will try to address this specific and very popular use case.
Approach for searching multi-term entities/concepts out-of-the-box, without installing any additional components.
The Rated Ranking Evaluator is a search quality evaluation tool which evaluates the quality of results coming from a search infrastructure.
This blog post explores in details the current status of the Lucene BlendedInfixSuggester and how it works.