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
Is ChatGPT Making Us Stupid?ChatGPT promises to think and create for us. Will the price be what remains of our intelligence and creativity?17h agoA response icon117h agoA response icon1
To Ask or Not To Ask: That is the Question for AI AgentsToday’s AI agents have become quite proficient at understanding language, but they are still poor at managing uncertainty.Nov 3A response icon1Nov 3A response icon1
Do Agents Know What They’re Searching For?AI Agents can comply with our requests, but they cannot share our curiosity. They can retrieve, but they cannot search.Oct 27A response icon2Oct 27A response icon2
Is Retrieval Dead?Retrieval isn’t dead — it’s gone underground, quietly powering a world that doesn’t realize how much it still depends on it.Oct 20Oct 20
Representing Documents with Multiple IntentsIf queries can be ambiguous, why do we force every document to have a single meaning?Oct 15Oct 15
