Similarity Search: Measuring Meaning From Jaccard to Bert

Semantic Search: Measuring Meaning From Jaccard to Bert

I put together this article covering six of the most popular similarity search techniques. Three traditional, and three vector-based. Which are:

Traditional:

• Jaccard Similarity

• w-shingling

• Levenshtein distance

and Vector-based:

• TF-IDF

• BM25

• Sentence-BERT (SBERT)