Chapter 11. Semantic and personalized search

This chapter covers

  • Making search personalized for individual users
  • Matching documents based on meaning rather than just words
  • Implementing recommendation as a generalization of search

You’re at the end of a long journey. You’ve learned to use search technology to build relevant search applications. But you’re still just scratching the surface. In this final chapter, we look toward the horizon to explore some of the more novel—and experimental—ways to improve your users’ search experience. In particular, we cover two related techniques that can provide better relevance:

  • Personalized search provides search results customized to a user’s particular tastes using knowledge about that user. User ...

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