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Haystack 2019 Experience

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…

Synonyms Tips And Tricks
Synonyms and Stopwords: Vademecum

Synonyms and Stopwords: Vademecum

In this post we’ll cover two additional synonyms scenarios and we’ll try to summarise all previous tips in a coincise form. Following the approach of the previous posts [1] [2] [3], everything can be applied both to Apache Solr and Elasticsearch. Preconditions Synonyms and stopwords at query time: this is not just a “theoretical” constraint; imagine if you…

Apache Solr Elasticsearch Tips And Tricks
Apache Solr/Elasticsearch: How to Manage Multi-term Concepts out of the Box?

Apache Solr/Elasticsearch: How to Manage Multi-term Concepts out of the Box?

This flash blog post will address a very specific and common problem : how to manage entities/concepts composed by multiple terms in a vanilla Apache Solr/Elasticsearch instance ( no plugins or extensions to install). The (deployment) context An Elasticsearch or Apache Solr infrastructure where you cannot install third-party components (e.g. plugins, filters, query parsers). This can…