Stump The Chump
Do you have a tough problem with your Solr application? Facing challenges that you'd like some advice on?
Looking for new approaches to overcome a Solr issue? Not sure how to get the results you expected? Don't know where to get started? Then this session is for you. Get Chris Hostetter (aka Hoss) to come up with an immediate answer to your challenge or interesting problem.
During the session, Hoss will see the questions for the first time - and then will provide his approach to the problem. Our panel of judges will decide if he has provided an effective solution. Prizes will be awarded by the panel for the best question - and for those deemed to have "stumped the chump".
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Search fundamentally differs from database technology because we excel at the "fuzzy" - tf/idf, length norms, coord, edit distance, proximity boosts etc are all tools employed to produce results of radically differing match quality.
Given the potentially "long-tail" of low-quality results produced for many queries, does it make much sense to then offer facet counts or "sort by date" functions to users which will serve to surface this garbage from the long tail? Do we have a fundamental usability problem here? What approaches have people taken to address this concern?
Hey everyone - looking forward to being on the hot seat again this year (in a different continent!)
If you have questions, you can post them as comments here on the session page (i won't peek, I promise) or email them to "stump@lucene-eurocon.org"