Semantic Search Help
Following on in this series of examples demonstrating the use of the semantic search engine...
These examples are in order of sophistication, so please follow them one after another.
Second example: imagine you are a food hygienist and you would like to know “What is the political position of the Assembly in matters of food hygiene?”
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1.
It is assumed here that you have followed an earlier example, and thus understand the basic use of the semantic search page. Here is the prompt for the search:
2.
Essentially, this is a simple question. The subject is “food hygiene” and the political position of the Assembly is found in its adopted texts, namely resolutions, recommendations and opinions.
Here is the query, entered criterion by criterion as in the first example:
Here is the query, entered criterion by criterion as in the first example:
3. And here is the answer from the semantic search engine:
4. What can be discerned from these results?
Initially, we know that a document must be either a resolution, a recommendation or an opinion. It can’t be all or even two of these. Thus is will be impossible to get a 100% match. This is why there is nothing matching all criteria (see (a) in the previous screenshot).
The semantic search engine will do its best however. It presents the most relevent result at the top of the list, but look at the “score” and look at the date ((b) and (c) in the previous screenshot). A score of 50% means that the search has been able to match two of the four criteria – looking at the thesaurus and type for the document, it seems that it has matched “Resolution” (d) and “food hygiene” (e).
The date indicates an old document from 2002. But that is the most relevent.
Looking further down, the next document has matched at 25% (f), so one of the four criteria has been respected. The type indicates it’s a “Recommendation” (g) so that will be the match. However, it seems to be any old recommendation (or rather the latest recommendation there is, as the date (h) is very current to when this example was written). The large number of responses (i) shows that the search has returned all documents that are either resolutions, recommendations, opinions or about food hygiene, but only one meets two of the four criteria.
From this can be deduced that the Assembly has a definitive political position on food hygiene, and this can be found in Resolution 1311 (2002) (j). There have been no recommendations or opinions on this subject (or even any related subject).
Initially, we know that a document must be either a resolution, a recommendation or an opinion. It can’t be all or even two of these. Thus is will be impossible to get a 100% match. This is why there is nothing matching all criteria (see (a) in the previous screenshot).
The semantic search engine will do its best however. It presents the most relevent result at the top of the list, but look at the “score” and look at the date ((b) and (c) in the previous screenshot). A score of 50% means that the search has been able to match two of the four criteria – looking at the thesaurus and type for the document, it seems that it has matched “Resolution” (d) and “food hygiene” (e).
The date indicates an old document from 2002. But that is the most relevent.
Looking further down, the next document has matched at 25% (f), so one of the four criteria has been respected. The type indicates it’s a “Recommendation” (g) so that will be the match. However, it seems to be any old recommendation (or rather the latest recommendation there is, as the date (h) is very current to when this example was written). The large number of responses (i) shows that the search has returned all documents that are either resolutions, recommendations, opinions or about food hygiene, but only one meets two of the four criteria.
From this can be deduced that the Assembly has a definitive political position on food hygiene, and this can be found in Resolution 1311 (2002) (j). There have been no recommendations or opinions on this subject (or even any related subject).
END OF EXAMPLE.
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