PinnedModeling Queries as Bags of DocumentsLast week, I had the honor of presenting “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” at Search Solutions 2024 with Aritra Mandal.Dec 2Dec 2
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
Documents, Queries, and CategoriesDocuments, queries, and categories are all key ingredients for building successful search applications. This post aims to tie them together.Nov 25Nov 25
Where Do Categories Come From?Categories offering coverage, coherence, and distinctiveness are fundamental for search applications. But how do we obtain those…Nov 20Nov 20
Categories are Fundamental for SearchWhy are categories so important for a search application? Coherent and distinctive categories are key for relevance, recall, and ranking.Nov 182Nov 182
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
