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Search & Retrieval

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Search & Retrieval

Search & Retrieval

AI systems that find and surface relevant content from a body of documents, records, or media in response to a query. Includes semantic search, vector retrieval, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines that feed relevant passages into a language model. Used in document QA, public-records lookup, and library or archive search.

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element "search_retrieval"37 lines
{
  "id": "search_retrieval",
  "category_id": "processing",
  "title": [
    {
      "locale": "en",
      "value": "Search & Retrieval"
    }
  ],
  "description": [
    {
      "locale": "en",
      "value": "AI systems that find and surface relevant content from a body of documents, records, or media in response to a query. Includes semantic search, vector retrieval, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines that feed relevant passages into a language model. Used in document QA, public-records lookup, and library or archive search."
    }
  ],
  "authoring_guidance": [],
  "examples": [],
  "sources": [],
  "symbol_id": "search_retrieval",
  "variables": [
    {
      "id": "additional_description",
      "label": [
        {
          "locale": "en",
          "value": "Description"
        }
      ],
      "required": false
    }
  ],
  "shape": "circle",
  "icon_variants": [
    "default",
    "dark"
  ]
}