embedding
A numeric vector representing text, used to find passages similar in meaning rather than in wording.
What embedding does not show
Nothing about a page is retrievable by embedding if the page was never fetched in the first place.
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Definitions that name embedding
RDFa and Microdata · agentic knowledge graph · BM25 · dense retrieval · Dense vector · Cosine similarity
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How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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Questions about embedding
What is embedding?
A numeric vector representing text, used to find passages similar in meaning rather than in wording.
What does embedding not show or guarantee?
A numeric vector representing text, used to find passages similar in meaning rather than in wording. Nothing about a page is retrievable by embedding if the page was never fetched in the first place.
Which area of the glossary does embedding belong to?
Answer engines and retrieval: How a generated answer gets made, and what your page is competing for inside it.
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