Liftoff! How to get started with your first ML project 🚀

Hugging Face Blog · 4 years ago

Sentence Transformers is a Python library that converts text into numerical vectors to enable semantic search and similarity comparisons between sentences or documents. The library has accumulated nearly 8,000 GitHub stars and is used by over 3,000 dependent projects, with applications in chatbots, recommendation systems, and image search. Beginners can learn the library by selecting an interesting dataset, combining it with a secondary tool they're practicing, and building a self-scoped project like a semantic search application.