Query Expansion

The process of transforming or optimizing a user search prompt to improve the retrieval of relevant context and documents.

A retrieval technique that combines semantic vector search with keyword-based lexical search to improve the relevance, accuracy, and recall of retrieved information by leveraging the strengths of both approaches.

An architectural pattern that enhances generative model responses by retrieving relevant information from external knowledge bases.

A search technique that analyzes sentence meaning and intent rather than matching literal keywords.

A system component responsible for fetching relevant documents or passages from a knowledge base given a query.