This blog post aims to give a better understanding of Docvalues and stored fields in Apache Solr for the operations in which they can be used interchangeably.
This blog post is about our latest contribution to the Apache Lucene/Solr project:introducing the ability of assigning different weights to synonyms.This contribution aims to help users that deal with complex synonyms dictionaries where it’s important to associate a numerical weight to each of them, for example to boost the ones that are more important in…
In this post we describe what is an Intervals Table and how to build it using a Behaviour-Driven-Development (BDD) approach.
In this post we describe an approach to solve the problem of an application that requires both Full and Atomic Updates, using one of the powerful concepts in Object Oriented Programming: Polymorphism.
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…
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…
Third part of the journey into Entity Search trough embeddings. Focus of the post is the ranking phase.
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…
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…
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…