Jean Silva
Search engineer at Wallapop. He started out as a software engineer and has worked on search in travel and e-commerce before moving to classified ads. At Haystack EU 2023 he co-presented with Rene Kriegler on how Wallapop reduces Zero Results.
Known For
- Wallapop’s first production approach to Query Relaxation: drop the query term with the lowest document frequency. He built the offline dataset from search logs and tokens’ document frequencies in Solr, and reached about 80% offline accuracy before an A/B test.
Videos
- Rene Kriegler & Jean Silva - Alternative Queries for Zero Results — Haystack EU 2023
Related Concepts
Related People
- Rene Kriegler — co-speaker