Not showing results with low semantic similarity

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Hey there,

I am debugging an answers experience for a client currently, and have some entities showing that have a semantic similarity of 0.13 for example. How do I make sure that this low semantic similarity one does not appear in the search results?

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Hi @Asaki_Okuyama,

Check out this post here! The section on thresholds I think can help you.

Best,
Melissa

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Hey Melissa

I think the link you meant to paste is missing, could you send it again?

Thanks
Asaki

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Hi Asaki,

This is the link you want: Vertical Intents, Biases & Thresholds | Hitchhikers

You can set thresholds, or the minimum semantic score needed, for results to show.

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Hey @Kristy_Huang ,

Thank you for this! However I am looking more into ensuring that individual result that are not relevant (have low semantic similarity) are showing. I believe none of the functionalities on that link can do this on a individual result level, correct?
Thanks
Asaki

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Hi Asaki,

I’m not sure I understand your question. In your example, if you set a vertical threshold as 0.3, the result that has a semantic similarity of 0.13 would not show up because it does not meet that minimum threshold. Note this would only apply for universal search and the result would still appear in vertical search even if you have a threshold on.

Does this address your use case? If not, can you clarify what you’re looking for?

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Hey @Kristy_Huang
Then I think the threshold is not working on my experience, as I have a vertical threshold of 0.3 set on my FAQ vertical, yet results with a semantic similarity of 0.13 is still showing. Would this be a pubops ticket?