PinnedDaniel TunkelangAI-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).9 min read·1 day ago----
PinnedDaniel TunkelangSemantic 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).1 min read·Aug 7, 2023--1--1
PinnedDaniel TunkelangMinimalist Models for Search RankingRather than rehashing my concerns about distinguishing ranking from relevance, I thought I’d take a different approach.3 min read·Apr 27, 2023----
PinnedDaniel TunkelanginContent UnderstandingWhat is Content Understanding?Content understanding is the foundation of the search process. Without content understanding, we can’t have robust search.3 min read·Jul 18, 2022--1--1
PinnedDaniel TunkelanginQuery UnderstandingQuery UnderstandingThis publication is a series of posts devoted to query understanding.1 min read·Apr 23, 2021----
Daniel TunkelangAnalyzing the AI Search OpportunityIt’s not a question of whether to use AI for search, but where to incorporate it into the stack. And it’s important not to break what…5 min read·Apr 2, 2024----
Daniel TunkelangLLMs and RAG are Great, But Don’t Throw Away Your Inverted IndexIt is tempting to believe that we can dispense with the inverted index in favor of embedding-based retrieval. But there are a few…3 min read·Mar 29, 2024----
Daniel TunkelangLearn to Rank = Learn to be HumbleThe bottleneck for improving ranking is available training data — not just quantity, but its alignment with opportunities for improvement.3 min read·Mar 24, 2024----
Daniel TunkelangHierarchy is Hard!Organizing product types or topics into a taxonomy is challenging, but queries present an even more daunting challenge.4 min read·Mar 14, 2024----
Daniel TunkelangAn Update on Search ClassesIt is with a heavy heart that I announce that Grant Ingersoll and I are hitting pause on our Uplimit search classes.2 min read·Mar 12, 2024--1--1