Discovery

Project Summary

Discovery is the semantic search and exploration layer of the broader educational AI pipeline. It helps users find relevant courses, concepts, and learning materials across generated educational datasets using embeddings, concept graphs, and source-aware retrieval.

In the broader pipeline, Discovery sits between content structuring and downstream instructional use, making the knowledge layer searchable and navigable rather than leaving structured artifacts hidden behind internal representations.

Role in the Broader Pipeline

Discovery functions as the semantic exploration layer. After educational content has been ingested, cleaned, and transformed into embeddings and graph-based artifacts, Discovery gives users a way to search and navigate that information meaningfully.

This layer helps connect content ingestion and structuring to learner-facing or instructor-facing use by making concepts, relationships, and source materials easier to find and interpret.

What It Does

Discovery supports semantic search across educational datasets using:

  • Embeddings for concept-driven retrieval
  • Concept indexes and graph structures for relationship-aware exploration
  • Source-aware search that connects results back to course materials and educational artifacts

Rather than relying only on titles or exact keyword matches, the system supports exploration through conceptual similarity, course relationships, and structured educational context.

Why It Matters

Structured knowledge artifacts only become practically useful when people and downstream tools can locate the right material. Discovery helps make extracted concepts, relationships, and course artifacts usable by supporting natural, concept-based exploration rather than simple lookup.

In this way, it serves as a bridge between behind-the-scenes content structuring and the more visible instructional systems that depend on high-quality retrieval and navigation.

Demo video

If the embedded player does not load, view the demo on YouTube: Semantic Search Demo

Alignment with BOBPE Mission

Discovery supports the BOBPE mission by making structured educational knowledge more accessible, navigable, and useful. It helps create the conditions for scalable personalization by improving how educational content is found, connected, and carried forward into learner-facing and instructor-facing systems.