Ted Sullivan, Author at Lucidworks

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Articles by Ted Sullivan

When Worlds Collide – Artificial Intelligence Meets Search

We are living in a time when the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Search are rapidly merging – and the...

Why Facets are Even More Fascinating Than You Might Have Thought

I just got back from an another incredible Lucene/Solr Revolution, this year in Sin City (aka Las Vegas) Nevada. The...

Building a Subject Classifier Using Automatically Discovered Keyword Clusters, Part I

A lot has been written and discussed over the years about the relative benefits of automated or machine based classification...

Pivoting to the Query: Using Pivot Facets to build a Multi-Field Suggester

Suggesters, also known as autocomplete, typeahead or “predictive search” are powerful ways to accelerate the conversation between user and search...

Query Autofiltering IV: A Novel Approach to NLP

This is my fourth blog post on a technique that I call Query Autofiltering. The basic idea is that we...

Focusing on Search Quality at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015

I just got back from Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015 in Austin on a big high. There were a lot of exciting...

Query Autofiltering Extended – On Language and Logic in Search

Spock: The logical thing for you to have done was to have left me behind. McCoy: Mr. Spock, remind me...

Query Autofiltering Revisited – Lets be more precise!!!

In a previous blog post, I introduced the concept of “query autofiltering”, which is the process of using the meta...

Thoughts on „Search vs. Discovery“

“Search vs discovery” is a common dichotomy that is used in discussions about search technology, where the former is about...

Introducing Query Autofiltering

Query Autofiltering is autotagging of the incoming query where the knowledge source is the search index itself. What does this...

The Well Tempered Search Application – Fugue

or “Tarballs II - The Search for More Money” (First a shout-out to the one and only Mel Brooks for...

The Well Tempered Search Application – Prelude

What's wrong (or needs to be fixed) with Search and Why? At Lucidworks, we like to say “Search is the...