Founder @ Searchkernel, author of AI-Powered Search and Solr in Action, startup Advisor, researcher/ public speaker on search, relevance & ranking, recommendation systems, and natural language processing.
Today, I was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada presenting a research paper entitled “The Semantic Knowledge Graph: A compact, auto-generated model for real-time traversal and ranking of any relationship within a domain“. I presented the paper at the 2016 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, where the paper was accepted for publication. […]
Lucene/Solr Revolution is always my favorite conference of the year, and I was invited to present again this year in the great city of Boston, MA. It was a fun presentation, representing a whirlwind tour through numerous open sourced extensions within the larger Apache Solr Ecosystem (The Semantic Knowledge Graph, the Solr Text Tagger, a […]
I was honored to be invited to present today, along with Khalifeh AlJadda, Lead Data Scientist at CareerBuilder, to a group of nearly 200 Georgia Tech graduate students and other members of the larger Georgia tech community. We thank Dr. Polo Chau and his Data and Visual Analytics class for inviting us and sponsoring the […]
I was invited to speak on 2015.11.10 at the Bay Area Search Meetup in San Jose, CA. With over 175 people marked as attending (and several more on the waitlist who showed up), we had a very exciting and lively discussion for almost 2 hours (about 1/2 was my presentation, with the other half being […]
I was excited to be selected again this year to present at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015 in Austin, Texas. My talk today focused on one the main areas of focus for me over the last year – building out a highly relevant and intelligent semantic search system. While I described and provided demos on the capabilities […]
I was invited to present again this year at Lucene/Solr Revolution 2014 in Washington, D.C. My presentation took place this afternoon and covered the topic of “Semantic & Mulilingual Strategies in Lucene/Solr. The material was taken partially from the extensive Multilingual Search chapter (ch. 14) in Solr in Action and from some of the exciting […]
My team was fortunate to have 2 papers accepted for publication through the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, held last week in Washington, D.C. I presented one of the papers titled “Crowdsourced Query Augmentation through the Semantic Discovery of Domain-specific Jargon.” The slides and video (coming soon) are posted below for anyone who […]
I was fortunate to be able to speak last week (along with Joe Streeky, my Search Infrastructure Development Manager) at the very first Atlanta Solr Meetup held at Atlanta Tech Village. The talk covered how we scale Solr at CareerBuilder to power our recommendation engine, semantic search platform, and big data analytics products. Thanks to […]
I just got back from a fantastic trip to Dublin, Ireland for last week’s Lucene/Solr Revolution EU. I was privileged this year to to present a deep dive (75 minute) session on “Enhancing Relevancy through Personalization & Semantic Search.” I appreciate all the great questions and feedback from everyone who attended. Video: Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/treygrainger/enhancing-relevancy-through-personalization-semantic-search-28741313 Talk […]
I just made it back from the beautiful, sunny city of San Diego where LucidWorks hosted another fantastic Lucene/Solr Revolution conference this week. I was invited back this year to present on “Building a Real-time, Big Data Analytics Platform with Solr.” Thank you to everyone who came and packed out the room, especially those who […]