An introduction to elasticsearch's advanced relevance ranking toolbox

Gilad Gal

Principal Product Manager I

Elastic

The hallmark of a great search experience is always delivering the most relevant results, quickly, to every user. The difficulty lies behind the scenes in making that happen elegantly and at a scale. From App Search’s intuitive drag and drop interface to the advanced relevance capabilities built into the core of elasticsearch — Elastic offers a range of tools for developers to tune relevance ranking and create incredible search experiences. In this session, we’ll explore some of elasticsearch’s advanced relevance ranking features, such as dense vector fields, BM25F, ranking evaluation, and more. Plus we’ll give you some ideas for how these features are being used by other Elastic users to create world-class, category defining search experiences.