PinnedPrecision, Recall, and Desirability: A Deep DiveThis deep dive on precision, recall, and desirability discusses defining, motivating, measuring, identifying, and addressing these…Mar 27A response icon2Mar 27A response icon2
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, 2024A response icon3Dec 2, 2024A response icon3
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, 2024A response icon1Aug 2, 2024A response icon1
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, 2024A response icon3Apr 8, 2024A response icon3
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, 2023A response icon1Aug 7, 2023A response icon1
Navigating the Pareto FrontierTraditional search retrieves relevant results and ranks them based on desirability. This approach often fails for exploratory search.Apr 24A response icon2Apr 24A response icon2
ChatGPT, Are You Just Telling Me What I Want to Hear?If I had completely different beliefs, would ChatGPT be as gleefully supportive of my perspective? Is it just saying what I want to hear?Mar 3A response icon2Mar 3A response icon2
Not All Recall is Created EqualWe should not improve recall for its own sake, nor assume all recall is equally valuable. Some relevant results matter more than others.Feb 24A response icon1Feb 24A response icon1
To Bot or Not to Bot: It Depends on the QuestionIf a machine can answer your question, ask the machine yourself. If your question requires a personal answer, explain why that is the case.Jan 31Jan 31
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
