[dumb1224]

Agreed. In the 2000s it was all about BM25 in the NLP community. I hardly see any paper that did not mention it in my opinion.

[RA_Fisher]

For sure, it’s very popular, just not the best anymore (and actually far from it).

[authorfly]

And dependency chaining. But yes, lots of BM25.

The 2000s and even 2010s was a wonderful and fairly theoretical time for linguistics and NLP. A time when NLP seemed to harbor real anonymized general information to make the right decisions with, without impinging on privacy.

Oh to go back.