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Unveiling the Judging Spectrum: From Perfection to Bias
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Tracking multiple clicks on one item after one query
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My wish list for what we need to complete to trigger the release of the next major version of Solr...
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Driving the evaluation aspect of the Evaluation Framework is the choice of how we model user clicks to decide what is a good search result and what isn’t. We are starting with Clicks over Expected Clicks (COEC). This is a well understood approach for...
Dec 20, 20244 min readThe Dev console is NOT the place for debugging OpenSearch Queries!!!
You need a Notebook!
Dec 12, 20242 min read
Wait... Why is there an Eval Framework when we are building a hybrid optimizer for OpenSearch?
Recently I was asked about where the Evaluation Framework that we are building for OpenSearch came from, since our goal when we set out was to build an Optimizer for Hybrid Search! For those of you who haven’t heard about the new hotness that is Hybr...
Nov 26, 20242 min readScaling Solr: From Desktop to Cloud Scale
At the recent Community over Code Denver conference I got to speak on how we could scale Solr seamlessly from the Desktop install to the Cloud scale setup. The talk was born out of my long time frustration that Solr has had two modes of operation, a ...
Nov 9, 20242 min readUser Behavior Insights (UBI) Spec 1.2.0 Notes
Formalizing `application` and `timestamp` attributes
Oct 24, 20242 min readCommunity Over Code NA 2024 Apache Lucene/Solr Birds of a Feather
Community Over Code NA 2024 (Ex ApacheCon) happened from the 7th to the 11th of October in Denver (United States of America). The Search Track was well attended, with the designated room being at standing room only capacity quite a few times. As has ...
Oct 13, 20243 min read