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Doug Turnbull - Staff Relevance Engineer, Shopify - Search as a constant experimentation cycle

Vector Podcast

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BERT's Inverted Index Bar Search Method

OIC: What problem does BERT hope to solve the search in 2019 end of 2019? And you really well compared their inverted index bar search method with Word2Back. You basically alluded to the fact that BERT probably gets the aboutness of the document and better than Word2 back or TFIDF, right? OIC: Yeah. To your early example, if this book react never happens to be near JavaScript because everyone knows it's JavaScript, right? Then you will never find it using, using Word2back or maybe it will be too distant. But with BERT, it tries to embed the whole document, right? Or like, you know, chunks of it,

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