PinnedWhere Do LTR Labels Come From?My clients often express a desire to improve their ranking. This post sketches out challenges of obtaining labeled training data for LTR.Aug 6Aug 6
PinnedHow to be a Search ConsultantIf you have thought about hiring a search consultant or working as one, you may have asked yourself what exactly search consultants do.Aug 21Aug 21
PinnedAI-Powered Search: Embedding-Based Retrieval and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Replacing traditional search with AI-powered search means embedding-based retrieval and possibly retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).Apr 83Apr 83
PinnedPrecision, Recall, and DesirabilitySearch focuses on precision, recall, and desirability. AI mostly helps with the first two, which makes it possible to focus on the third.Feb 152Feb 152
PinnedSemantic Equivalence of e-Commerce QueriesSemantic Equivalence of e-Commerce Queries by Aritra Mandal, Daniel Tunkelang, and Zhe Wu. KDD 2023 Workshop on E-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP).Aug 7, 20231Aug 7, 20231
Where Do Categories Come From?Categories offering coverage, coherence, and distinctiveness are fundamental for search applications. But how do we obtain those…10h ago10h ago
Categories are Fundamental for SearchWhy are categories so important for a search application? Coherent and distinctive categories are key for relevance, recall, and ranking.2d ago22d ago2
Quo Vadis Nunc, Quora?Although I stopped contributing to Quora, I care deeply about technology-enabled knowledge sharing. So I am curious to see where it goes.Sep 25Sep 25
Seriously or Literally?Search applications to take searchers seriously, not literally. This need holds even when searchers practically ask to be taken literally.Sep 18Sep 18
Cold Start, Practical EditionIn practice, the cold start problem usually requires more than just collecting behavioral data to train a machine-learning model.Sep 16Sep 16
