[HN Gopher] Evaluating Search Algorithms ___________________________________________________________________ Evaluating Search Algorithms Author : clandry94 Score : 43 points Date : 2021-04-01 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (shopify.engineering) (TXT) w3m dump (shopify.engineering) | NumberCruncher wrote: | I should re-read the article because I can't see what kind of | problem they try to solve with MAP, NDCG and "invented here" | Pagerank what couldn't be solved with tf-idf and out-of-the box | Elasticsearch functionality. Maybe just "I invented my own | Pagerank algo" looks better on the CV than "I spent 2 weeks | reading through the ELK documentation". It's a highly underrated | peace of software. | ntonozzi wrote: | Great article! | | This seems like a fairly tricky ranking function. I wonder if | they compared it to combining TF-IDF and the page popularity. | This would help with the problem they explained. | | It'd be interesting to see more details about how they | implemented the query-specific page rank. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-01 23:01 UTC)