Search Technology Talk-7

Very excited to announce our next Search Meetup!

This time, I would like to use the opportunity that Doug Turnbull will be in town and discuss with him about issues related to offline search evaluation:

In my talk, I will discuss the impact of missing judgments on offline evaluation and ways of mitigating it, while Doug will somehow provocatively say "NDCG is overrated" and look into alternatives to offline evaluation.

• Doors will open at 18:30
• Talks and networking: 19:00 - 21:30

Speakers:

Doug Turnbull has been enthusiastic about search relevance since 2013. He co-authored Relevant Search and AI Powered Search. He created Quepid and Splainer for search relevance testing. He co-created the Elasticsearch Learning to Rank plugin with Wikimedia Foundation and Snagajob. Doug loves learning from other search practitioners, and hopes you'll bring inquisitive curiosity and experiences to this talk.
Doug currently works at Reddit where he's helping bring Machine Learning to search. Recently Doug worked at Shopify to help improve merchant search attributed revenue by 19% year over year.. Doug spent 8 years consulting at dozens of organizations during his time as CTO at OpenSource Connections.
Doug blogs about search and other topics at https://softwaredoug.com

René Kriegler has worked in search for almost 16 years, including on projects for some of the top 10 German e-commerce sites. He is co-founder and co-organiser of MICES (Mix-Camp E-commerce Search), an event that brings together the e-commerce search community each year. He created and maintains the Querqy open source library for query rewriting. René is co-initiator of the Chorus project – an open source software stack that combines Querqy with other powerful tools to build e-commerce search and to measure and improve search quality. He works as Director E-commerce at OpenSource Connections.

Many thanks to HeyJobs for hosting and sponsoring the event!

See you at the meetup!
René Kriegler

PS: If you can't wait to meet with other search enthusiasts, 'Haystack - The Search Relevance Conference' will take place in Berlin on 20th/21st September.