How It Works
Semantic matching
Comparing two pieces of text by meaning rather than by exact words. In hiring tools, it lets software treat "led a team of five" and "managed five people" as similar, so a résumé can match a job posting without repeating its keywords word for word.
Origin · no single documented coiner
Comes from information retrieval and natural language processing research. Its use in résumé screening grew with embedding-based AI models. No single documented coiner.