synonymy

This suggests to me that the confusion is due to the synonymy of the terms in common usage.

Even worse, mixing up synonymy with antonymy - hot and cold are similar in a way, but also completely opposite.

To state the obvious: your mistake was assuming that the process of synonymy strictly preserves meaning, which isn't the case.

So in practice the vector side carries recall on paraphrase/synonymy/OOO vocab, while BM25 stabilizes precision on exact term and short doc cases.

My only gripe with word embeds was that they were mixing synonymy and relatedness.

And wikipedia already has a mechanism for resolving synonymy and name-resolution disputes.

Ah, but this synonymy obscures the all-important difference between equality-of-opportunity and equality-of-outcome.

I wonder why open source has often to be synonymy of poor GUI ergonomy.

The anti-master position also willfully disregards synonymy.

I'm not sure that this synonymy is justified.

I worked for this task for a year and it doesn't work very well because in embedding space relatedness, synonymy and antonymy are mixed up and require pairwise thresholding.

If I had time and free use of an LLM, I'd like to investigate how well it understands constructional synonymy, like "the red car" and "the car that is red" and "John saw a car on the street yesterday.

Synonymy is by far one of the simplest kinds of tasks that are relevant to making computers understand language, despite its awesome usefulness.