January 29, 2025
How to search languages with compound words
Compound words present challenges in search engines during text analysis and tokenization, as they can obscure meaningful connections between word components. Tools like the Hyphenation Decompounder Token Filter help address these issues by deconstructing compound words.


December 23, 2024
Improve search results by calibrating model scoring in elasticsearch
Learn how to leverage annotated data to calibrate semantic model scoring for better search results

December 19, 2024
Ensuring business rules work seamlessly with semantic search
Harness the power of query rules combined with semantic search and rerankers.

November 14, 2024
elasticsearch retrievers are generally available with elasticsearch 8.16.0!
elasticsearch retrievers have gone through a significant revamp and are now generally available for all to use. Learn all about their architecture and use-cases.

November 4, 2024
Reranking with an elasticsearch-hosted cross-encoder from HuggingFace
Learn how to use a model from Hugging Face to host and perform semantic-reranking in elasticsearch.

November 1, 2024
Interval queries: why they are true positional queries, and how to transition from Span
Explains how Interval queries are true positional queries and how to transition to them from Span queries.

October 29, 2024
What is semantic reranking and how to use it?
Introducing the concept of semantic reranking. Learn about the trade-offs using semantic reranking in search and RAG pipelines.

August 30, 2024
Personalized search with learning-to-rank (LTR)
Learn how to train ranking models that improve search relevance for individual users and personalize search through learning-to-rank (LTR) in elasticsearch.

August 27, 2024
Looking back: Elastic's vector search improvements in elasticsearch & Lucene
Looking back at Elastic's vector search innovations in elasticsearch and Lucene.