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Peter Straßer

About the author

Solution Architect with developer experience in e-commerce search applications.

Author’s articles

 Scaling late interaction models in Elasticsearch - part 2

Scaling late interaction models in Elasticsearch - part 2

This article explores techniques for making late interaction vectors ready for large-scale production workloads, such as reducing disk space usage and improving computation efficiency.

Searching complex documents with ColPali - part 1

Searching complex documents with ColPali - part 1

The article introduces the ColPali model, a late-interaction model that simplifies the process of searching complex documents with images and tables, and discusses its implementation in Elasticsearch.

How to search languages with compound words

January 29, 2025

How to search languages with compound words

Compound words present challenges in search engines during text analysis and tokenization, as they can obscure meaningful connections between word components. Tools like the Hyphenation Decompounder Token Filter help address these issues by deconstructing compound words.

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