When Words Start Walking: Rethinking Semantic Search Beyond Averages
Search fails in a very ordinary way. A lawyer looks for a clause without remembering the exact wording. A finance analyst searches a prospectus for an operating-profit statement, but types only the economic idea. A compliance officer remembers a person’s role, not the sentence where the role was declared. The system returns either too much, too little, or the wrong thing wearing the right keywords. Everyone then calls it “semantic search,” because apparently disappointment sounds better in Greek. ...