What is Entity Extraction? Entity extraction is, in the context of search, the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields. The reason we may want to involve entity extraction in […]
Entity Extraction with spaCy
What is Entity Extraction? Entity extraction is, in the context of search, the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields. The reason we may want to involve entity extraction in […]
Entity Extraction with Scikit-learn Classifiers
What is entity extraction? Entity extraction is the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields. For example: how to tell, when the user typed in Apple iPhone, that the intent […]
Using Solr to Tag Text
Over the years, natural language processing, in the world of search, went from interesting detail to a must have, especially in areas such as e-commerce. Engineers started incorporating classification, synonym generation, named entity recognition and much more into their search systems […]
Search Relevance – Solr & Elasticsearch Similarities
What is Search Relevance Similarity Lucene has a lot of options for configuring similarity. By extension, Solr and Elasticsearch have the same options. Similarity makes the base of your relevancy score: how similar is this document (actually, this field in […]
Solr Learning To Rank and Streaming Expressions
During the Entity Extraction For Product Searches talk that Radu Gheorghe and I gave at Activate conference in Montreal last year, we talked about various natural language processing and machine learning algorithms. We showed entity extraction both on top of Solr and using […]
Use Case Focused Elasticsearch Online Training Classes to Fit Your Exact Needs
We’ve been working with Elasticsearch since its inception, either with clients on consulting for Elasticsearch products and Elasticsearch production support, or by building our own hosted log management solution. For the last 4 years, we’ve also been sharing our knowledge […]
Generating Word Embeddings with Gensim’s word2vec
During our Activate presentation, we talked about how to do query expansion by dynamically generating synonyms. Instead of statically defining synonyms lists, we showed a demo of how you could use word2vec to derive synonyms from a dataset. Before we […]
Field Stats for Elasticsearch 6.x
We’re excited to announce the release of the Field Stats API plugin for Elasticsearch. The Field Stats API used to be present from Elasticsearch 1.6 to 5.6, to provide efficient statistics for fields of each index. For example, the minimum […]