Kathleen DeRusso
Kathleen DeRusso is a Principal Software Engineer at IEEE GlobalSpec, and works on a team focused on search technology powering websites like www.globalspec.com and www.datasheets360.com. She has an MBA from The College of St Rose and a BA in Computer Science from SUNY Albany. When she's not working on search, her interests are reading and kayaking.

Elasticsesarch semantic search, leveled up: now with native match, knn and sparse_vector support
Semantic text search becomes even more powerful, with native support for match, knn and sparse_vector queries. This allows us to keep the simplicity of the semantic query while offering the flexibility of the Elasticsearch query DSL.

Improving text expansion performance using token pruning
Learn about token pruning and how it boosts the performance of text expansion queries by making them more efficient without sacrificing recall.

All about those chunks, ’bout those chunks, and snippets!
Exploring chunking and snippet extraction for LLMs, highlighting enhancements for identifying the most relevant chunks and snippets to send to models such as rerankers and LLMs.

Semantic text is all that and a bag of (BBQ) chips! With configurable chunking settings and index options
Semantic text search is now customizable, with support for customizable chunking settings and index options to customize vector quantization, making semantic_text more powerful for expert use cases.

Elasticsearch query rules are now generally available
Introducing the general availability of query rules

Looking back: Elastic's vector search improvements in Elasticsearch & Lucene
Looking back at Elastic's vector search innovations in Elasticsearch and Lucene.

Search relevance tuning: Balancing keyword and semantic search
This blog offers practical strategies for tuning search relevance that can be complementary to semantic search.

The sparse vector query: Searching sparse vectors with inference or precomputed query vectors
Learn about the Elasticsearch sparse vector query, how it works, and how to effectively use it.
