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Re:Pg_vectorize: The simplest way to do vector search and RA... by kjqgqkejbfefn on Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:19AM (#39627653)
On the level of paper, not everything is laid out linearly. The main text is often laid out in column, the flow can be be offset with pictures with a caption, additional text can be placed in inserts, etc ...

You need a human eye to figure that out and this is the task nlm-ingestor tackles.

As for the content, semantic contiguity is not always guaranteed. A typical example of this are conversations, where people engage in narrative/argumentative competitions. Topics get nested as the conversation advances, along the lines of "Hey, this remind me of ...". Building up a stack that can be popped once subtopics have been exhausted: "To get back to the topic of ...".

This is explored at length by Kebrat-Orecchioni in:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-in-society/...

And an explanation is offered by Dessalles in:

https://telecom-paris.hal.science/hal-03814068/document

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