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Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by Beefin » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 11:08 PM UTC

Stanford's NLP course:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOSH4v6133s...

Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by Beefin » Thu, Nov 24, 2022, 11:27 PM UTC

series of tutorials and comparisons that aim to teach a foundations about vector search:

https://vectorsearch.dev/

Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by User23 » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 12:36 AM UTC

Is there some better alternative to Knuth-Morris-Pratt or Boyer-Moore? Both can easily be adapted to regular expression matching and as far as I know there’s no faster algorithm that doesn’t do preprocessing.

Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by firebones » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 12:52 AM UTC

ssn wrote: post #7

Three reference textbooks are available openly: * Introduction to Information Retrieval, http://informationretrieval.org/ * Information Retrieval in Practice, http://www.search-engines-book.com/ * Entity-Oriented Search, https://eos-book.org/ Modern Information Retrieval is also a classic reference. Not openly available but some contents are (were?) available online. Their site seems to be down but the Internet Archi…

I am biased, but building the Intro to Information Retrieval chapters in your favorite language, bit by bit, is really good to get the feel of the tradeoffs for index capabilities.

Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by deanebarker » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 1:55 AM UTC

softwaredoug wrote: post #18

binarymax wrote: post #17

“Relevant search” by Doug Turnbull and John Berryman, published by Manning, is THE best book to get started with tuning search engines. I’be been a search engineer for >10 years and this is always the first book I recommend. https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search

Awe thanks Max <3

Before I read your book, I thought, "I know all about search!"

After I read it...

"...I knew NOTHING about search."

No book has ever knocked me off my pedestal so brutally and so thoroughly.

Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by johnthescott » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 3:40 AM UTC

unixhero wrote: post #15

Just use Postgres fulltext Search, its good enough http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...

for postgres, i highly recommend the rum index over the core fts. rum is written by postgrespro, who also wrote core fts and json indexing in pg.

    https://github.com/postgrespro/rum

rum handles +20mil pdf pages, interactively.

Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by leeseonwook » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 6:58 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by leeseonwook » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 6:58 AM UTC

leeseonwook wrote: post #27

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Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by MonkoftheFunk » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 7:49 AM UTC

Hotz... Is that you... Trying to learn to improve Twitter search? ;)

Re: Ask HN: Books about full text search?

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Post by SPBS » Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

johnthescott wrote: post #26

unixhero wrote: post #15

Just use Postgres fulltext Search, its good enough http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...

for postgres, i highly recommend the rum index over the core fts. rum is written by postgrespro, who also wrote core fts and json indexing in pg. https://github.com/postgrespro/rum rum handles +20mil pdf pages, interactively.

Pleasantly surprised that RUM is just a drop-in replacement for the built-in GIN index, you can still use Postgres' native FTS operations with it.