Semantic Search
When people cannot find material because they do not know the exact words the author used, which is most of the time.
Semantic search matches meaning rather than keywords, over material where the searcher and the author chose different vocabulary. That gap is why keyword search feels broken to everyone except the person who wrote the document.
Access scoping matters as much as relevance: results must reflect what the searcher is entitled to see.
What the work includes
- Embedding-based retrieval over your own corpus
- Hybrid ranking combining semantic and keyword signals
- Per-user access scoping applied to results
- Relevance evaluation against real queries rather than synthetic ones