OpenSource Connections
Search consulting firm and tooling company. Authors of many foundational search relevance articles and two widely-used open source evaluation tools.
Products
- Quepid — web-based search relevance evaluation platform; run NDCG/P@K queries against live search engine, manage judgment lists, track quality over time
- Rated Ranking Evaluator (RRE) — CI/CD-integrated search quality regression tool for Java-based projects
Key People
- Doug Turnbull — founder/principal, author of “Relevant Search” (O’Reilly), prolific blogger at softwaredoug.com
- Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade — principal, search relevance consultant
Articles
Multiple foundational articles from OSC team:
- What is a Relevant Search Result · Choosing Your Search Relevance Evaluation Metric · Implementing NDCG Scorer in Quepid · Bayesian BM25 is Cool · Succeeding with Relevance Evaluation using PPS Sampling