Offline sync - 20190306

Summarizing the offline update for today sync (it was in another private channel)
DJ:

drafted NVS internal timeline, will adjust based on today's discussion. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1czqxUBG_kvjruxxzOeOqvlnO9Gxq7q1G1rXrov4-J2k/edit#gid=0
attended Monday's meeting: more towards general discussions instead of prioritizing atomic intents. Some notes

Universal Search Platform only ranks product groups (blog, hotel, A&A, etc)

First iteration: depends on product classifier probability

Integrate with merchandising platform

For reusing templates that will be used for a product group

Lookup-based NER uses ElasticSearch (ES)

Or just feed free-text user's queries directly to ES of the corresponding product

Akur

Meeting with Vishal for NER

Still unclear what is the MVP looks like
Will have follow up meeting with Deb, Elisa, Evan, Vishal to clarify whether NER is needed or not

Arinto

Draft deployment arch for internal NVS, but still WIP. Will revisit after RecSys tasks (end of next week, hopefully)