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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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semantic search

/sɪˈmæntɪk sɜːrtʃ/ - n.

1 [colloq.] Search that understands the question better than the org understands the answer.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. Retrieval that ranks results by learned meaning similarity rather than exact keyword match.

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See also
  • chunkingCutting the policy in half exactly where the exception lived.
  • embeddingsCoordinates that faithfully encode whatever bias the source corpus never declared.
  • retrieval-augmented generationA pipeline that retrieves the company's contradictory documents and asks the model to sound certain about all of them.
  • vector databaseThe new system of record for documents no one would govern in the old system of record.