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Tag: semantic-search

Latent Semantic Indexing and the Attempt to Search Concepts Instead of Exact Words

Latent Semantic Indexing used singular-value decomposition to project terms and documents into a lower-dimensional space, attacking vocabulary mismatch long before neural embeddings.

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Google Knowledge Graph and the Shift from Strings to Entities

Google's 2012 Knowledge Graph launch made entity identity and relationships a visible part of Web search, supplementing keyword matching with structured knowledge.

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