AI Search issue

Mark Allison
Mark Allison Member Posts: 526 ✭✭
edited November 22 in English Forum

When I perform an AI search for "Was Nero the antichrist?" I get a different answer than when I search for "Was Nero the anti-christ?" Hopefully Logos can figure out a way to account for words that are commonly spelled with slight variations.

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  • scooter
    scooter Member Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭

    These 2 questions appear identical, Mark, except for the dash in the second anti-christ, probably occasioned by the necessity of a new line……Or maybe I need glasses.

  • Yasmin Stephen
    Yasmin Stephen Member Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭

    I think that is his point - why get different answers when "antichrist" and "anti-christ" are the same concept?

  • Troy M
    Troy M Member Posts: 26 ✭✭

    Maybe it sees that dash as an operator?

  • Yasmin Stephen
    Yasmin Stephen Member Posts: 1,495 ✭✭✭

    That is not the problem. What each search is doing is pulling from books that spell the word as used in the search query - the query with "antichrist" will pull from books where the word is spelled this way, and the same for "anti-christ". This means you must run two searches if you want a more thorough response.

  • Thomas Glen Leo
    Thomas Glen Leo Member Posts: 50 ✭✭

    While that appears in fact to be the issue, one would hope for some fuzzy logic in an AI search. When Data parses a question with no understanding at all, that's funny. In search on Logos, not so much.

  • Rick Brannan
    Rick Brannan MVP Posts: 231

    My guess, assuming the question is sent to an AI, is that "antichrist" and "anti-christ" tokenize differently in the AI hence the different responses.

    (Lots of assumptions here on what happens under the hood; and I'm likely wrong, but that's my first thought as to explaining a difference in what the AI query returns)

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  • Paul Gibson
    Paul Gibson Member Posts: 119 ✭✭

    I would suggest that anytime AI sees a hyphenated word that it searches for the word with and without the hyphen. Determining if a word without a hyphen could legitimately be used with a hyphen would be a much harder task.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,726

    If you look under a Search box with "anti-christ", there is a message with "Search for was Nero the antichrist instead" and the results include articles with that spelling. It is Smart enough to include other forms like "anti-christian", "antichrists" unless you exclude them e.g. -"anti-christian".

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