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The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
Trey Grainger
Chief Algorithms Officer
Lucidworks
Next Generation
of
The
What is
?
AI?
Machine Learning?
Data Science?
Neural Search?
AI-Powered Search?
Deep Learning?
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
http://aiPoweredSearch.com
... is my new book!
Keyword
Search
Knowledge Graph
User Intent
Personalized
Search
Semantic
Search
Domain-aware
Matching
The Goal of AI-powered Search
Content
Understanding
Domain
Understanding
Collaborative
Recommendations User
Understanding
image credit: SAS Institute,
1998
Definitions, circa 1998
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
AI-powered
Search
Question / Answer
Systems
Virtual Assistants
• Signals Boosting Models
• Learning to Rank
• Semantic Search
• Collaborative Filtering
• Personalized Search
• Content Clustering
• NLP / Entity Resolution
• Semantic Knowledge Graphs
• Document Classification
• etc.
• Neural Search
• Word Embeddings
• Vector Search
• Image / Voice Search
• etc.
• Question / Answer System
• Virtual Assistants
• Chatbots
• Rules-based Relevancy
• etc.
Proudly built with open-source
tech at its core: Apache Solr &
Apache Spark
Personalizes search
with applied
machine learning
Proven on the
world’s biggest
information systems
Query Intent
(query classification, semantic query parsing,
semantic knowledge graphs, concept expansion,
automatic query rewrites, clustering,
personalization, question/answer
systems, virtual assistants)
Search Intelligence Spectrum
Basic Keyword Search
(inverted index, tf-idf, bm25,
multilingual text analysis,
query formulation, etc.)
Taxonomies / Entity Extraction
(entity recognition, taxonomies,
ontologies, business rules,
synonyms, etc.)
Automated Relevancy Tuning
(Signals boosting, AB testing / multi-
armed bandits testing, signals-based
back-testing, genetic algorithms,
Learning to Rank)
Self-learning
People to
People
People to
Information
People to
Insights
Search + AI=
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
Watson: “You appeared to [see a good deal] which was quite invisible to
me”
Sherlock: “Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know
where to look, and so you missed all that was important.”The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY, Sir. Oliver
Head?
Nose?
Abstract Concept of
Detective with Pipe
Specific hypothesis from Experience (leveraging social cue that this is probably a well-known
Final Answer + conceptual context
Natural Language Understanding
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
Ok, Google…
Is Agave Nectar good for you?
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
How can we help
=
=
=
=
Significance of Feedback Loops
User
Searches
User
Sees
Results
User
takes an
action
Users’ actions
inform system
improvements
Signals
Boosting
Popularized
Relevancy
Learning
to Rank
Generalized
Relevancy
Collaborative
Filtering
Personalized
Relevancy
Signals
Boosting
Popularized
Relevancy
Learning
to Rank
Generalized
Relevancy
Collaborative
Filtering
Personalized
Relevancy
Signal Collection & Processing
User Query Results
Alonzo ipad doc10,
doc22,
doc12, …
Elena printer doc84,
doc2,
doc17, …
Ming ipad doc10,
doc22,
doc12, …
… … …
User Action Document
Alonzo click doc22
Elena click doc17
Ming click doc12
Alonzo purchase doc22
Ming click doc22
Ming purchase doc22
Elena click doc2
… … …
ipad ⌕
Signal Processing
& Machine Learning
Learned Relevance Models
ipad
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
ipad
Crowdsourced
Relevancy
Crowdsourced
Biases
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
Still Available
through
Query Variations
Manual Override
By Facebook
ipad
BananasBananasBananas
BananasBananasBananas
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
Risks Potential Solutions
Reinforces Current Biases • Learning to Rank
• Use-case-specific Click Models
• User-group bias detection
• Inject conceptual diversity
Subject To Manipulation • Session Filtering
• Quality vs. Quantity Signal Weighting
• Only Count Explicit Actions
Cold Start Problem • Content-based Relevance
• Learning to Rank
Signals Boosting + Collaborative Filtering
Knowledge
Graphs
Domain modeling
Multi-modal
Learning
Merged Content
Thought
Vectors
Conceptual scoring
Learned Knowledge Graphs
Trey Grainger works for Lucidworks.
He is speaking at the Activate 2019
conference.
#Activate19
(Activate) is being held in Washington, DC
September 9-12, 2019.
Trey got his masters degree from
Georgia Tech.
Trey’s Voicemail
Learned Knowledge Graphs
Trey Grainger works for Lucidworks.
He is speaking at the Activate 2019
conference.
#Activate19
(Activate) is being held in Washington, DC
September 9-12, 2019.
Trey got his masters degree from
Georgia Tech.
Trey’s Voicemail
Multimodal Learning
Phrase: Vector:
apple juice: [ 1, 5, 0, 0, 0, 4, 4, 3 ]
cappuccino: [ 0, 5, 3, 0, 4, 1, 2, 3 ]
cheese bread sticks: [ 5, 0, 4, 5, 0, 1,
4, 2 ]
cheese pizza: [ 5, 0, 4, 4, 0, 1, 5, 2 ]
cinnamon bread sticks: [ 5, 0, 4, 5, 0, 1, 4, 2 ]
donut: [ 5, 0, 1, 5, 0, 4, 5, 1 ]
green tea: [ 0, 5, 0, 0, 2, 1, 1, 5 ]
latte: [ 0, 5, 4, 0, 4, 1, 3, 3 ]
soda: [ 0, 5, 0, 0, 3, 5, 5, 0 ]
water: [ 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5 ]
Ranked Results: Green Tea
0.94 water
0.85 cappuccino
0.80 latte
0.78 apple juice
0.60 soda
… …
0.19 donut
Vector Similarity
Scores:
Vector Similarity (a, b):
a · b = |a| × |b| × cos(θ)
Ranked Results: Cheese
Pizza
0.99 cheese bread sticks
0.91 cinnamon bread sticks
0.89 donut
0.47 latte
0.46 apple juice
… …
0.19 water
Sentence
Embeddings:[ 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3 ]
[ 5, 3, 2, 3, 4, 0, 3, 4 ]
. . .
Document Embedding:
[ 4, 1, 4, 2, 1, 2, 4, 3 ]
Word Embeddings:
[ 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3 ]
[ 4, 1, 3, 0, 1, 1, 4, 2 ]
. . .
Paragraph Embeddings:
[ 5, 1, 4, 1, 0, 2, 4, 0 ]
[ 1, 1, 4, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0 ]
. . .
Thought Vectors
Keyword
Search
Collaborative
Recommendations
Knowledge Graph
User Intent
Personalized
Search
Semantic
Search
Domain-aware
Matching
The Goal of AI-powered Search
Content
Understanding
User
Understanding
Domain
Understanding
The Next
Generation of
AI-powered
Search
The Next Generation of AI-Powered Search
Trey Grainger
trey@lucidworks.com
@treygrainger
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