Max Irwin

Search engineer at OpenSource Connections (OSC), focused on applying neural/BERT-based approaches to practical search relevance problems.

Known For

• Early practical analysis of BERT for Elasticsearch search relevance (2019)
• Bridging gap between NLP research and production search systems

Articles

• Understanding BERT and Search Relevance

Key Concepts

• Dense Vector Retrieval
• Bi-Encoder
• Cross-Encoder
• Embedding Fine-tuning

Affiliations

• OpenSource Connections (OSC) — same org as Doug Turnbull