Haystack: The Search Relevance Conference!
From the webpage:
Haystack is the conference for improving search relevance. If you’re like us, you work to understand the shiny new tools or dense academic papers out there that promise the moon. Then you puzzle how to apply those insights to your search problem, in your search stack. But the path isn’t always easy, and the promised gains don’t always materialize.
Haystack is the no-holds-barred conference for organizations where search, matching, and relevance really matters to the bottom line. For search managers, developers & data scientists finding ways to innovate, see past the silver bullets, and share what actually has worked well for their unique problems. Please come share and learn!
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Welcome topics include
- Information Retrieval
- Learning to Rank
- Query Understanding
- Semantic Search
- Applying NLP to search
- Personalized Search
- Search UX Strategy: Perceived relevance, smart snippeting
- Measuring and testing search against business objectives
- Nuts & bolts: plugins for Solr, Elasticsearch, Vespa, etc
- Adjacent topics: recommendation systems, entity matching via search, and other topics
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The first link for the conference I saw was http://mailchi.mp/e609fba68dc6/announcing-haystack-the-search-relevance-conference, which promised topics including:
- Intent detection
The modest price of $75 covers our costs….
To see a solution to the problem of other minds and to discover their intent, all for $75, is quite a bargain. Especially since the $75 covers breakfast and lunch both days, plus dinner the first day in a beer hall. 😉
Even without solving philosophical problems, sponsorship by OpenSource Connections is enough to recommend this conference without reservation.
My expectation is this conference is going to rock for hard core search geeks!
PS: Ask if videos will be posted. Thanks!