Matt J Williams
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Search. Applied ML & IR. Lapsed academic. Previously @cookpad_dev, @AdargaAI, @CardiffUni, @UniBirmingham, @UCL, & @UniOfExeter.
Bristol, England
Joined June 2009
Looking forward to the inaugural/reincarnated London Search and AI Meetup tonight! 🤖🔎 Charlie Hull @FlaxSearch on search result quality with Quepid, and OpenSearch's @nateboot talking about the index state management plugin.
Looking forward to tomorrow's London Search & AI Meetup! We'd love you to join us in person of course, but if you can't make it we're also going to livestream the talks - please do join the Meetup group as this is where the details will be announced.
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MICES is a one-day community event on #ecommerce #search (Berlin, 12 June). Share your insights or case study and discuss thoughts and ideas with the community - our call for speakers open until 28th April. Details: https://t.co/9OralCU22q
#cfp #cfs
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Really enjoyed giving this talk! Credit goes to my team back then for delivering this huge project. 🔎🧑🍳❤️ Anyone in search/recommendation/ML/data who's considering Berlin Buzzwords 2024, I strongly recommend attending. Even better, why not give a talk? CfP deadline's Feb 25th.
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The next two-part congruence at #SearchSolutions2023: @FlaxSearch on the essentials of pragmatic application of AI in search (Everything Old is New Again vibes), dovetailing into @gracelee0020's insight-packed talk on the practical challenges/successes of doing RAG in legal IR.
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Two nicely complementary talks to kick us off on AI and search at #SearchSolutions2023: Julie Weeds (Uni Sussex) on how the field got here (last 30 years), and emerging challenges. Hong Zhou (Wiley) on recent applications of AI for information discovery in academic publishing.
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Strong agree on this. And seems obvious, but very often overlooked. "Your IDP must solve a problem your developers have" @thegalbash on taking a problem first mindset for Platform Engineering. @berlinbuzzwords #bbuzz
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I should have listened to @FlaxSearch's travel tips. I'm becoming convinced that international rail travel is indeed the better option.
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Despite flight cancellations and train delays, I'm at last in Berlin 🎉🇩🇪. Looking forward to sharing Cookpad's journey in search engineering on Monday at Berlin Buzzwords. @berlinbuzzwords #bbuz
https://t.co/ja03Re9IPD 14:00–14:40 CET. Frannz Salon stage.
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Just published from our Search Science Team at @cookpad_dev – some work we've been exploring with learning to boost 🎉🔍👨🍳... Learning to Boost — Query-time relevance signal boosting https://t.co/BLXSzJM3CJ By @hammad_khan23 et al. 👏
sourcediving.com
The job of a search relevance engineer frequently involves (as you probably already know if you’re reading this!) tuning different…
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"Search and recommendation tasks are getting closer to each other depending on context" #SearchSolutions2022
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💡 Often, we don't have the right corpora to truly study natural language. Datasets can obscure the real problem we're trying to solve, and distort what the best solution is. Filip Radlinski on Google's movie soft attribute dataset https://t.co/in0t5aDyhY
#SearchSolutions2022
github.com
This dataset consists of sets of movie titles, with each set annotated with a single English soft attribute (such as 'confusing' or 'romantic') and a reference movie...
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Lovely ideas on how to interactively visualise query stream data, from @amywalduck at State Library of Queensland. 8.5M searches over 10 years. The Topography Of Searching https://t.co/kdfdGYGqQq
#SearchSolutions2022
slq.qld.gov.au
Digital Collections Catalyst 2021 Brett Tweedie shares his inspiration for the project, The Topography of Searching.
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The many different relevance priorities from user research at LexisNexis. Strong themes of "know your user" and "you are not your user". @InfoPro_Tasha #SearchSolutions2022
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Thanks to @craig_macdonald @macavaney @ntonellotto for yesterday's tutorial co-located at #SearchSolutions2022 -- IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments Love the notebooks https://t.co/pvuBnb1XPj
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Cookpad is hosting the triumphant return of PyData Bristol. The first in-person PyData since Feb 2020! 🥳 Places are going quick.
meetup.com
PyData is back in Bristol - in person for the first time since February 2020! We'd like to thank our new hosts [Cookpad](https://www.cookpadteam.com/) for providing the ven
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It's the final day of #PyConUK @PyConUK! We're out of spoons but still have our lovely tote bags. Our team are always open to talk Python, cooking, and everything between! 🐍🇬🇧🌍👩🍳👨🍳 And did we mention we're hiring? Find out what it's like to work here at https://t.co/eRqpwN9ack
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Hello PyCon UK #pyconuk #pyconuk2022 @PyConUK! Come say 'hi' 👋 to our friendly bunch of Cookpad @cookpad_dev Pythonistas in the hall. On offer: - Exquisite conversation about how we use Python to make every day cooking fun 👩🍳🧑🍳 - Swag for your kitchen 🥄 - Handsome tote bags 👜
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