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Semantic Similarity

Natural Language Processing· Intermediate

Definition

A measure of how similar two pieces of text are in meaning — computed using embedding distance or specialized similarity models. Unlike lexical similarity (which requires matching words), semantic similarity captures conceptual overlap regardless of surface form.

Enterprise Context

Powers duplicate detection, near-miss document retrieval, customer feedback clustering, and cross-lingual search in enterprise content management systems.

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