Semantic Search

What it means

Searching for information based on meaning and intent rather than exact keyword matches.

Code example

# find the chunks most similar to the query
scores = [cosine(query_vec, chunk_vec) for chunk_vec in chunk_vecs]
top = sorted(range(len(scores)), key=lambda i: -scores[i])[:3]

Why it matters

It finds relevant information even when users use different words from those in the original documents.

When to use it

• Document search
• E-commerce product search

Further reading

• Pinecone Semantic Search