We’ve extended Nrtsearch with the Inference Plugin, which embeds ML-based ranking directly in the search layer — eliminating the need for a standalone scoring service. We use Nrtsearch (read more information on the blog post), a Lucene-based open-source search engine built by Yelp, to power a variety of applications such as business search, reviews search, ad delivery and photo search. In this blog post, we give a high-level overview of the Machine Learning (ML) based scoring workflow in Nrtsearch. We’ll show how ML models are configured and loaded, and how different applications use custom business logic to develop, test, and...
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