I encourage you to reach out to the search team, they're lovely folks and even better engineers.
On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 1:53 PM Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
On 2023-05-09 09:27, Thiemo Kreuz wrote:
I'm curious what the actual question is. The basic concepts are studied for about 60 years, and are in use for about 20 to 30 years.
Sorry to hear that you're so negative. It's quite obvious that this is not currently used in Wikipedia, but is presented everywhere as a novelty that has not been around for 20 or 30 years.
https://www.elastic.co/de/blog/introducing-approximate-nearest-neighbor-sear...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/D...
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Search_Platform/Contact#Office_Hours
Thanks! This answers my question. It's particularly interesting to read the talk page to the plan. Part of the problem is that "word embedding" and "vector search" are not mentioned there, but a vector search could have found the "ML-enabled natural language search" that is mentioned. If and when this is tried, we will need to evaluate how well it works for various languages.
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se, user:LA2) Linköping, Sweden
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