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UID:pretalx-haystack-us-2026-JSZT33@pretalx.com
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DESCRIPTION:We introduce “Learning to Understand” as a corollary to the
  well known “Learning to Rank” process. By using evals to learn domain
 -specific query interpretation and rewriting rules and combining with sema
 ntic statistics from your index\, it’s possible to significantly improve
  search quality beyond typical BM25\, vector\, and hybrid search technique
 s.
DTSTAMP:20260502T102650Z
LOCATION:Main Stage
SUMMARY:Learning to Understand: A Missing Stage of Modern Retrieval - Trey 
 Grainger
URL:https://pretalx.com/haystack-us-2026/talk/JSZT33/
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UID:pretalx-haystack-us-2026-GA9ZAR@pretalx.com
DTSTART;TZID=EST:20260507T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Search has a new User Interface! All search will be Agentic/RAG
  and delivered through a chat interface! The days of the monolithic search
  engine are over!
DTSTAMP:20260502T102650Z
LOCATION:Main Stage
SUMMARY:Do we still need search engines? - Trey Grainger\, René Kriegler\,
  Jon Handler
URL:https://pretalx.com/haystack-us-2026/talk/GA9ZAR/
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