Semantic Search for Academic Papers

Design a semantic search engine specifically for academic research papers that enables users to find relevant papers based on abstract content and citation networks. Outline your approach to data ingestion, embedding creation for papers, model choice, and how you would measure the accuracy of search results.

Key concepts

semantic searchinformation retrievalembeddingsevaluation

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