<filename>examples/applications/semantic_search.py
"""
This is a simple application for sentence embeddings: semantic search

We have a corpus with various sentences. Then, for a given query sentence,
we want to find the most similar sentence in this corpus.

This script outputs for various queries the top 5 most similar sentences in the corpus.
"""
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, util
import numpy as np

embedder = SentenceTransformer('distilbert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens')

# Corpus with example sentences
corpus = ['A man is eating food.',
          'A man is eating a piece of bread.',
          'The girl is carrying a baby.',
          'A man is riding a horse.',
          'A woman is playing violin.',
          'Two men pushed carts through the woods.',
          'A man is riding a white horse on an enclosed ground.',
          'A monkey is playing drums.',
          'A cheetah is running behind its prey.'
          ]
corpus_embeddings = embedder.encode(corpus, convert_to_tensor=True)

# Query sentences:
queries = ['A man is eating pasta.', 'Someone in a gorilla costume is playing a set of drums.', 'A cheetah chases prey on across a field.']


# Find the closest 5 sentences of the corpus for each query sentence based on cosine similarity
top_k = 5
for query in queries:
    query_embedding = embedder.encode(query, convert_to_tensor=True)
    cos_scores = util.pytorch_cos_sim(query_embedding, corpus_embeddings)[0]

    #We use np.argpartition, to only partially sort the top_k results
    top_results = np.argpartition(-cos_scores, range(top_k))[0:top_k]

    print("\n\n======================\n\n")
    print("Query:", query)
    print("\nTop 5 most similar sentences in corpus:")

    for idx in top_results[0:top_k]:
        print(corpus[idx].strip(), "(Score: %.4f)" % (cos_scores[idx]))

<filename>examples/applications/semantic_search.py
"""
This is a simple application for sentence embeddings: semantic search

We have a corpus with various sentences. Then, for a given query sentence,
we want to find the most similar sentence in this corpus.

This script outputs for various queries the top 5 most similar sentences in the corpus.
"""
from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer, util
import numpy as np

embedder = SentenceTransformer('distilbert-base-nli-stsb-mean-tokens')

# Corpus with example sentences
corpus = ['A man is eating food.',
          'A man is eating a piece of bread.',
          'The girl is carrying a baby.',
          'A man is riding a horse.',
          'A woman is playing violin.',
          'Two men pushed carts through the woods.',
          'A man is riding a white horse on an enclosed ground.',
          'A monkey is playing drums.',
          'A cheetah is running behind its prey.'
          ]
corpus_embeddings = embedder.encode(corpus, convert_to_tensor=True)

# Query sentences:
queries = ['A man is eating pasta.', 'Someone in a gorilla costume is playing a set of drums.', 'A cheetah chases prey on across a field.']


# Find the closest 5 sentences of the corpus for each query sentence based on cosine similarity
top_k = 5
for query in queries:
    query_embedding = embedder.encode(query, convert_to_tensor=True)
    cos_scores = util.pytorch_cos_sim(query_embedding, corpus_embeddings)[0]

    #We use np.argpartition, to only partially sort the top_k results
    top_results = np.argpartition(-cos_scores, range(top_k))[0:top_k]

    print("\n\n======================\n\n")
    print("Query:", query)
    print("\nTop 5 most similar sentences in corpus:")

    for idx in top_results[0:top_k]:
        print(corpus[idx].strip(), "(Score: %.4f)" % (cos_scores[idx]))

This is a simple application for sentence embeddings: semantic search  We have a corpus with various sentences. Then, for a given query sentence, we want to find the most similar sentence in this corpus.  This script outputs for various queries the top 5 most similar sentences in the corpus. # Corpus with example sentences # Query sentences: # Find the closest 5 sentences of the corpus for each query sentence based on cosine similarity #We use np.argpartition, to only partially sort the top_k results