August 7, 2025 | OpenSource Connections
This year’s SIGIR conference featured the “LiveRAG Challenge”. In this competition participants received 500 questions synthesized from a given corpus (FineWeb10BT) and had 2 hours time to generate answers... The post SIGIR LiveRAG Challenge Report appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
Team draft interleaving provides a path to faster A/B testing. Learn about our proof of concept within the Chorus Ecommerce search system.| OpenSource Connections
Search is important to your business. We offer training and consulting to improve search result quality, going beyond search relevance| OpenSource Connections
I’ve had some interesting conversations over the last few months around the three big hitters of open source search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. Solr is the old dog in... The post Dogfights in Open Source Search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
The Next Generation of Search at OpenSource Connections In 2016 Manning published Relevant Search, co-written by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman. Unlike most books on the subject of ‘search’... The post Lead Author of “AI-Powered Search” Trey Grainger joins OSC team appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
Sometimes a query should produce zero search results - but how do we score this correctly in Quepid, the search relevance workbench? The post When Zero Search Results is the right answer (& how to measure this in Quepid) appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
Are your users searching for particular brands? Can we use LLMs for brand detection and use this to improve search & drive business? The post More Query Understanding: Brand Detection with LLMs appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
Eric Pugh and Heather Halter discuss how we can improve OpenSearch documentation after a Lightning Talk at OpenSearchCon EU The post So you want better OpenSearch documentation? appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
Here's what people at two recent conferences thought about UBI, an open source solution for tracking user behavior we're working on with the OpenSearch team The post What we learned about tracking user behavior at Haystack & OpenSearchCon appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
A review of Haystack US 2024, the search relevance conference, by the three winners of the Hughes Scholarship. The post Haystack US 2024 – a review by the winners of the Hughes Scholarship appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
Search conference veteran Charlie Hull lists the different kinds of search conference and how you can get the most from them The post How to get the best from a search conference (updated) appeared first on OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
NDCG and ERR model two different, but related, information-seeking goals. Learn more from the team at OpenSource Connections.| OpenSource Connections
Vector Search: Navigating Recall and Performance: Learn more about how to measure the latency-vs-recall trade-off in semantic text retrieval| OpenSource Connections