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Improving German Solr/Lucene search results

Improving German Solr/Lucene search results

Ben Clark Ben Clark August 16th, 2013

On the search and recommendations team at Wayfair, we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated men and women of the world.  We have speakers of French, Chinese, Hebrew, German and Persian in the crew.  Some of us host couchsurfers at our swanky apartments, and then turn around and couchsurf…

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Better Lucene/Solr searches with a boost from an external naive Bayes classifier

Better Lucene/Solr searches with a boost from an external naive Bayes classifier

Ben Clark Ben Clark October 23rd, 2012

Me: Doug, what are you doing? Doug: Solving the problem of class struggle with one of Greg’s classifiers. Me:  Karl Marx should call his office.  What do you mean by that? Doug: Let me explain… Class struggle at Wayfair search used to manifest itself as searches for ‘red cups’ that returned……

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Better three-word searches with SOLR

Ben Clark Ben Clark October 5th, 2012

We use the Apache SOLR search platform behind the scenes at Wayfair.  Sometimes, when vanilla SOLR doesn’t quite do what we want, we improve it for our purposes. When we suspect that others might have the same purposes, and we think that we have solved our problems in a generally…

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