• Semantic Search
  • Dependencies
  • Install
  • Run
  • Use
  • Acknowledgments

Semantic Search

Allow natural language search on user content like notes, images using transformer based models

All data is processed locally. User can interface with semantic-search app via Emacs, API or Commandline

Dependencies

• Python3
• Miniconda

Install

git clone https://github.com/debanjum/semantic-search && cd semantic-search
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate semantic-search

Run

Load ML model, generate embeddings and expose API to query specified org-mode files

python3 main.py --input-files ~/Notes/Schedule.org ~/Notes/Incoming.org --verbose

Use

• Semantic Search via Emacs

  • Install semantic-search.el
  • Run M-x semantic-search <user-query> or Call C-c C-s

• Semantic Search via API

  • Query: GET http://localhost:8000/search?q="What is the meaning of life"
  • Regenerate Embeddings: GET http://localhost:8000/regenerate
  • Semantic Search API Docs

• Call Semantic Search via Python Script Directly

  python3 search_types/asymmetric.py \
  --compressed-jsonl .notes.jsonl.gz \
  --embeddings .notes_embeddings.pt \
  --results-count 5 \
  --verbose \
  --interactive

Acknowledgments

• MiniLM Model for Asymmetric Text Search. See SBert Documentation
• OpenAI CLIP Model for Image Search. See SBert Documentation
• Charles Cave for OrgNode Parser