BM25¶

The BM25 is the most popular TF-IDF method for retrieval, which reflects how important a word is to a document. It is often called sparse retrieval. It is different with dense retrieval, which is using embedding model and similarity search. Dense retrieval search passage using semantic similarity, but sparse retrieval uses word counts. If you use documents in specific domains, BM25 can be more useful than VectorDB. It uses the BM25Okapi algorithm for scoring and ranking the passages.

Module Parameters¶

bm25_tokenizer: You can select which tokenize method you use for bm25. The default method is ‘porter_stemmer.’ And you can choose between ‘space,’ and huggingface AutoTokenizer name. Plus, you can choose Korean tokenizer such as ‘ko_kiwi,’ ‘ko_kkma,’ and ‘ko_okt.’

porter_stemmer¶

The porter_stemmer is the default tokenizer. It is optimized for English. It divides sentences into words and extracts stem. It means, stemmer can change ‘studying,’ ‘studies’ to ‘study.’

space¶

It is a simple method to divide words into just space. It is simple, but it can be a great choice for multilingual documents.

Huggingface AutoTokenizer¶

You can use any AutoTokenizer from huggingface, like gpt2 or mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2. Just type huggingface repo path, and you can use the tokenizer.

ko_kiwi (For Korean 🇰🇷)¶

It uses kiwi tokenizer for the Korean language. We highly recommend using it for Korean documents. You can check more information about kiwi at here.

ko_kkma (For Korean 🇰🇷)¶

It uses okt tokenizer for Korean. You have to install konlpy to use this tokenizer. You can check more information about kkma at here.

ko_okt (For Korean 🇰🇷)¶

It uses okt tokenizer for Korean. You have to install konlpy to use this tokenizer. You can check more information about okt at here.

Any trouble to use Korean tokenizer?

You need to install extra dependencies to properly use Korean tokenizer. Please go to here to look at the installation guide.

Example config.yaml¶

modules:
  - module_type: bm25
    bm25_tokenizer: [ porter_stemmer, ko_kiwi, space, gpt2, ko_kkma, ko_okt ]