BibGenie DocsHow BibGenie Understands Your Library
Learn what embeddings are, how BibGenie uses them for semantic search, and why indexing improves paper discovery.
Why this page exists
When you search in BibGenie, the goal is not only to find papers that contain the exact same words you typed. In many cases, you want BibGenie to find papers that are about the same idea, even if they use different terminology.
That is where embeddings and indexing come in.
What is an embedding?
An embedding is a way to turn a piece of text into a numeric representation that captures its meaning.
You do not need to think about the math behind it. The practical idea is simple:
- Similar text tends to produce similar embeddings
- Different topics tend to produce more distant embeddings