Berlin Buzzwords 2024

Ansgar Gruene

Ansgar Gruene, Ph. D., is a Senior Data Scientist at GetYourGuide in Berlin. His work focuses on ML approaches to improve the users search and discovery experience on the platform. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science and has several years of experience as Backend Engineer and Data Scientist in the travel industry.


Company/Organisation

GetYourGuide


Session

06-11
16:00
40min
From Text to Context: How We Introduced Hybrid Search
Ansgar Gruene, Dharin Shah, Alexander Butenko

We present the lessons learnt from improving the search of our global online marketplace with 20 million products sold per year. We successfully moved from a traditional word-match based approach (BM25) to a modern hybrid solution by adding a semantic vector model which we fine-tuned to our domain.

Maschinenhaus