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 2, 20243Dec 2, 20243
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 2, 20241Aug 2, 20241
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 8, 20243Apr 8, 20243
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 15, 20242Feb 15, 20242
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
Ground Truth: A Useful FictionWhile we should not accept AI-generated outputs uncritically, we must acknowledge that our human-derived “ground truth” is a useful fiction.Jan 14Jan 14
Conjunction, Disjunction, What’s Your Function?Much of what search applications do is “hooking up words and phrases and clauses,” and conjunctions have played a key role in doing so.Jan 6Jan 6
Documents, Queries, and CategoriesDocuments, queries, and categories are all key ingredients for building successful search applications. This post aims to tie them together.Nov 25, 2024Nov 25, 2024
Where Do Categories Come From?Categories offering coverage, coherence, and distinctiveness are fundamental for search applications. But how do we obtain those…Nov 20, 2024Nov 20, 2024
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 18, 20242Nov 18, 20242
