NLP for Semantic Search
Learning and science
online course
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#166of 2,533 in 2021
Top 7%of 2021 by points
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5 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
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Informative, polished and useful for learning NLP
From 3 comments
Looks really informative and polished!
SleekEagle on HNI am browsing the web in search for NLP resources as I consider a pivot into this new area (I already have a few years in data science and image processing) and finding this post…
nbeleski on HNBless you for sharing this knowledge.
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Objections
Semantic search is less useful than literal keyword search for known terms
From 3 comments
I very much appreciate the course you shared. But I want to mention for everyone taking it: please also keep in mind "dumb" logical operators like OR, AND, NOT, and quotes that…
danuker on HNThis was my thought exactly. I absolutely loathe semantic search and have never found it more useful than literal search.
smt88 on HNIt most often results in being unable to find something I know exact keywords for. I have used search long enough to remember having only literal search, and I never had an issue…
smt88 on HN
Requests
Support for longer documents beyond transformer token limits
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Does this semantic search work for longer documents? I know BERT&Co models are limited to around 500-1000 tokens.
rolisz on HN
Questions
How does the course relate to vector search approaches
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Looks very good, thanks for sharing! How does your course relate to the vector search approach discussed here?…
rmbyrro on HN
What prerequisites are needed
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What skills would you say are nessecary prerequisites for understanding this material? I'm a writer, and in the past I have had success making poems and shit via messing around…
notjulianjaynes on HN
Alternatives named
HuggingFace NLP course
From 2 comments
Ideally I think it's useful to be familiar with Python and some NLP. Parts of the course can get reasonably in-depth, but we have tried to simplify every as much as possible and…
jamesbriggs on HNThe HuggingFace course is very good for NLP: https://huggingface.co/course/chapter1/1
jamesbriggs on HN
Google Vector Search
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Looks very good, thanks for sharing! How does your course relate to the vector search approach discussed here?…
rmbyrro on HN