Semantic search at scale is made possible with the advent of tools like BERT, bert-as-service, and of course support for dense vector manipulations in Elasticsearch. While the degree may vary depending on the use case, the search results can certainly benefit from augmenting the keyword based results with the semantic ones…
Classification hinges on the notion of similarity. This similarity can be as simple as a categorical feature value such as the color or shape of the objects we are classifying, or a more complex function of all categorical and/or continuous feature values that these objects possess. Documents can be classified… Read more »
The road to ‘Computational Linguistics Nirvana’ is littered with thesis upon thesis, stacks of journal papers, and volumes of conference proceedings… so one can get lost in a hurry. Whole programs dedicated to computational linguistics have made great advances over the years enabling the Siris and Cortanas of our time. We… Read more »
