Glossary · AI
Natural-language search
Turning a conversational query — «red running shoes under $50» — into the structured filters a search index actually needs, automatically.
Shoppers don't type filter syntax; they type sentences. A natural-language model parses the free-text query into the filters, sort order and search terms a collection understands — price ceilings, colour, category — before the request ever reaches the index.
It sits in front of ordinary hybrid search rather than replacing it: the parsed filters narrow the candidate set, and typo-tolerant, vector-aware retrieval still ranks what's left.
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