If the query returned 0 results and didn't have any syntax (no intitle:foo) in it, should we try _harder_ to get suggestions? I don't know exactly what that changes that means but we can totally implement the retry if we think it'll help.
The idea is that it might not be performant enough to run super duper strong suggester settings all the time and when there are no results it important to have suggestions.
For reference, only 20% of 0 results queries that I counted this morning returned a suggestion. I don't know how many asked for it though.
Sounds like a theory worth testing!
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
If the query returned 0 results and didn't have any syntax (no intitle:foo) in it, should we try _harder_ to get suggestions? I don't know exactly what that changes that means but we can totally implement the retry if we think it'll help.
The idea is that it might not be performant enough to run super duper strong suggester settings all the time and when there are no results it important to have suggestions.
For reference, only 20% of 0 results queries that I counted this morning returned a suggestion. I don't know how many asked for it though.
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Do we know the likely quality of the super duper strong suggester results? Suggesting "Did you mean: *Barbara Streisand*" When the query is "Waterveliet" isn't so great.
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
If the query returned 0 results and didn't have any syntax (no intitle:foo) in it, should we try _harder_ to get suggestions? I don't know exactly what that changes that means but we can totally implement the retry if we think it'll help.
The idea is that it might not be performant enough to run super duper strong suggester settings all the time and when there are no results it important to have suggestions.
For reference, only 20% of 0 results queries that I counted this morning returned a suggestion. I don't know how many asked for it though.
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Suggesting "Did you mean: *Barbara Streisand*" When the query is
"Waterveliet"
Also known as the "Netflix" approach.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Trey Jones tjones@wikimedia.org wrote:
Do we know the likely quality of the super duper strong suggester results? Suggesting "Did you mean: *Barbara Streisand*" When the query is "Waterveliet" isn't so great.
Trey Jones Software Engineer, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Nikolas Everett neverett@wikimedia.org wrote:
If the query returned 0 results and didn't have any syntax (no intitle:foo) in it, should we try _harder_ to get suggestions? I don't know exactly what that changes that means but we can totally implement the retry if we think it'll help.
The idea is that it might not be performant enough to run super duper strong suggester settings all the time and when there are no results it important to have suggestions.
For reference, only 20% of 0 results queries that I counted this morning returned a suggestion. I don't know how many asked for it though.
Wikimedia-search mailing list Wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search
Wikimedia-search mailing list Wikimedia-search@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search