Semantic Search
A search methodology that understands the intent and contextual meaning behind a query, rather than matching literal keywords.
Legacy enterprise search is fundamentally broken. An employee searching for "how do we handle returns?" gets zero results because the policy document uses the phrase "merchandise exchange protocol." Semantic Search, powered by the vector infrastructure in BASALTECHO, understands that these concepts are identical. It maps queries and documents into the same mathematical space and retrieves results based on cosine similarity of meaning. This single capability eliminates the most common complaint in every enterprise: "I know that document exists, but I can't find it."
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation
A technique that grounds LLM responses in factual, enterprise-specific data by retrieving relevant documents before generating an answer.
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Vector Database
A specialized database optimized for storing and querying high-dimensional mathematical representations of unstructured data like text, images, and audio.
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Knowledge Graph
A structured representation of real-world entities and the relationships between them, enabling machines to reason about interconnected data.