| # Applications | |
| SparseEncoder can be used for various use-cases. In these folders, you find several example scripts that show case how SparseEncoder can be used | |
| ## Computing Embeddings | |
| The [computing_embeddings](computing_embeddings/) folder contains examples how to compute sentence embeddings using SparseEncoder. | |
| ## Semantic Textual Similarity | |
| The [semantic_textual_similarity](semantic_textual_similarity/) folder contains examples how to compute semantic textual similarity between sentences using SparseEncoder. | |
| ## Semantic Search | |
| The [semantic_search](semantic_search/) folder shows examples for semantic search: Given a sentence, find in a large collection semantically similar sentences. | |
| ## Retrieve & Rerank | |
| The [retrieve_rerank](retrieve_rerank/) folder shows how to combine a bi-encoder for semantic search retrieval and a more powerful re-ranking stage with a cross-encoder. | |