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Build apps that can interpret unstructured data and analyze insights
Natural language processing (NLP) is the parsing and semantic interpretation of text, which allows systems to learn, analyze, and understand human language.
ColBERT (Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT) is a retrieval model that is designed to strike a balance between the efficiency of traditional methods like BM25 and the accuracy of deep learning models like BERT, an open source deep learning model used for natural language understanding. ColBERT uses the late interaction and MaxSim scoring method to rank the documents based on their relevance to the query. This scoring method furnishes better retrieval because of fine-grained matching and context awareness.
Learn how to create a LangChain RAG system in Python with watsonx. Fetch 27 articles from a website to create a vector store as context for an LLM to answer questions about the topic.
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