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Lexical ranking function named as the keyword half of the hybrid retriever; no implementation appears in the supplied text.
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A CQADupStack benchmark reports dense retrieval beating BM25 by more on identifier-bearing queries than on the rest, because the identifier is often absent from the documents that answer them.
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A scanned 346-page Kannada novel broke pure vector search. Hybrid BM25 plus dense retrieval with RRF, and a regex page router, took reported faithfulness to 0.92.
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Vector search ranks by meaning, so literal tokens like part numbers and ticket IDs fall just outside the top results. The fix is lexical plus dense retrieval, not a model upgrade.
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A dev.to walkthrough wires chokidar, tree-sitter, Qdrant and an MCP server into a code search stack. Every part is off the shelf; the unresolved work is reindexing and retrieval quality.
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