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Ask HN: Is there any semantic search developed on top of Algolia?

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I don't know of any community projects using BERT atop Algolia for semantic search, but we have been experimenting with it internally. Earlier in 2020 we ran some tests that first performed a search on Algolia, before using BERT for the "semantic" side of it. We stopped those experiments for three reasons:

(I'm on the team at Algolia that works on NLU and semantic search.) I don't know of any community projects using BERT atop Algolia for semantic search, but we have been experimenting with it internally. Earlier in 2020 we ran some tests that first performed a search on Algolia, before using BERT for the "semantic" side of it. We stopped those experiments for three reasons: 1. The results weren't high-quality enough 2. The predictions took too long 3. We found other approaches that performed better We could have probably improved the quality of the predictions, and there were strategies we…

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