Perspectives on learning at Search Meetup Cambridge
Last night was the second Cambridge search meetup, held in a (rather noisy as it turned out) pub close to the river. It was great to see so many new faces from a wide range of backgrounds including...
View ArticleECIR 2011 Industry Day – part 1 of 2
As promised here’s a writeup of the day itself. I’ve split this into two parts. The first presentation was from Martin Szummer of Microsoft Research on ‘Learning to Rank’. I’d seen some of the content...
View ArticleOpen source search evening – ElasticSearch, Xapian and GSoC
Last night there was a small gathering in Cambridge of open source search engine developers and enthusiasts. Richard Boulton hosted the event and began with an introduction to elasticsearch, which is...
View ArticleAutonomy & HP – a technology viewpoint
I’m not going to comment on the various financial aspects of the recent news about HP’s write-down of the value of its Autonomy acquisition – others are able to do this far better than me – but I would...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2013, a review
Yesterday was the always interesting Search Solutions one day conference held by the BCS IRSG in London, a mix of talks on different aspects of search. The first presentation was by Behshad Behzadi of...
View ArticleLondon Lucene/Solr Usergroup – Search Relevancy & Hacking Lucene with Doug...
Last week Doug Turnbull of US-based Open Source Connections visited the UK and spoke at our Meetup. His first talk was on Search Relevancy, an area that we often deal with at Flax: how to tune a search...
View ArticleQuepid & Flax – if you’re not testing your search, you’re doing it wrong!
Earlier this year an e-commerce company asked us to look into how they should improve how they tested their website search queries. A relatively simple task you might think – but the company concerned...
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A tale of two cities (and two Lucene Hackdays)
To mark Flax’s 15th anniversary we ran two Lucene Hackdays recently, in London and Boston. I even made some Flax cakes! The London event was attended by around 20 people from companies both large and...
View ArticleDefining relevance engineering part 2: learning the business
Relevance Engineering is a relatively new concept but companies such as Flax and our partners Open Source Connections have been carrying out relevance engineering for many years. So what is a relevance...
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