2023-06-20 –, Frannz Salon
Conducting online testing is crucial for assessing a model’s performance in a real-world scenario. This talk explores a customized approach for evaluating ranking models using Kibana.
Online testing represents a fundamental method to assess the performance of a ranking model in practical applications, providing the information needed to improve and better understand its behavior.
Despite the advantages, the currently available evaluation tools have certain limitations. For this reason, we will present an alternative and customized approach to evaluate ranking models using Kibana.
The talk will begin with an overview of online testing, including its benefits and drawbacks. Then, we will provide an in-depth exploration of our Kibana implementation, detailing the reasons behind our approach. Attendees will learn about the various tools provided by Kibana, and with practical examples, we will show how to create visualizations and dashboards, complete with queries and code, to compare different rankers.
Attending this presentation will provide participants with valuable knowledge on how to leverage Kibana for the purpose of evaluating ranking models on custom metrics and on specific contexts such as the most popular and “populous” queries.
After an initial experience in the healthcare sector, believing strongly in the power of Big Data and Digital Transformation, Ilaria earned a Master in Data Science.
Since joining the Sease team (in 2020), she has gained a diverse range of experiences through projects related to Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval systems.
Ilaria has been working on integrating Learning To Rank and Search Quality Evaluation in e-commerce ecosystems, with the goal of improving their performance and the relevance of search results.
Additionally, she is an active member of the information retrieval research community, regularly sharing her knowledge through blogs and talks, contributing to open-source projects, and participating in international conferences.
Anna has demonstrated a passion for Information Retrieval since the University. Graduated from the University of Padua, with a computer science master’s degree dissertation in Entity Search, Anna has been working as a Search Consultant in Sease since 2019.
She actively works to support clients in the process of improving their search engines with the implementation of innovative personalized solutions.
She specializes in the integration of machine learning techniques with information retrieval systems, from Learning to Rank techniques to Neural Searches and Recommender Systems. She extensively worked on e-commerce websites, improving their performance by developing personalized models and evaluation systems.
Anna highly believes in innovation and research, keeping up-to-date with the latest academic studies and contributing to them. She participated in the European Conference of Information Retrieval 2022 with a poster on offline and online evaluation in the industry; and published a paper on improving interleaving techniques for the evaluation of information retrieval systems at the ECIR 2023.