Natural Language Processing
BM25
Natural Language Processing· Advanced
Definition
Best Match 25 — a probabilistic ranking function used in information retrieval to score document relevance to a query based on term frequency and inverse document frequency. Despite its age, BM25 remains a strong baseline widely used in hybrid retrieval alongside vector search.
Tags
#retrieval#ranking#sparse#TF-IDF#search
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