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 <l...@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-search-in-elasticsearch-8-0
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Draft/Product_%26_Technology#Objectives
> > 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 (l...@aronsson.se, user:LA2)
>    Linköping, Sweden
>
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