Project: Local TF-IDF Search Lab
Build a local retrieval lab that ranks documents, explains matched terms, and projects results into tiny topic dimensions.
What you will build
- A local tokenizer and TF-IDF vectorizer.
- A cosine ranking engine.
- A tiny topic projection that demonstrates the SVD/latent-topic idea.
- A retrieval trace with matched terms, missing terms, score, and strategy warning.
- A production recommendation: local, neural, or hybrid.
Product-level outcome
Transparent retrieval
Your project should show why a document ranked high, what terms matched, what terms were missing, and whether local lexical retrieval is enough for the query.