What is a "Concept" question?

What is the "Concept:?

This system tries to understand the main point of your question before searching for an answer. It does this by generating a 'concept' - a short phrase that sums up the key idea. 

For example, if you asked "What are the requirements for becoming a real estate agent in California?" the system would create the concept 'real estate agent requirements california'. 

This concept is then used to search for relevant information. Think of it like the system carefully listening to your full question, then noting down just the core details. Those key details help find answers faster.

The concept creation acts like a helpful assistant focused on summarizing the essential information in your question. This allows the system to search more precisely through all the real estate resources.

So in summary, the system generates a condensed 'concept' from your full question. This concept is then used to find the most relevant and accurate information to answer you.

Why do we need it?

When you post a question, there are actually several API "calls" that are made to retrieve information used to answer your question.  One such call is to our "vector store" (this is the database where all of our content is stored for retrieval), the goal of which is to retrieve the documents which best align with the "concept" of your question.  Again, the more relevant the documents retrieved, the better answers you are going to receive.  So, the better the concept, the better the chances of retrieving documents that will actually provide the information needed to correctly answer your question.

Examples

When not to use it?

In the rare occasion when the automatic concept generation is not bringing back the desired documents, you may wish to use the Advanced Query Screen Concepts On option to turn concepts off (leave the box un-ticked).  When you do this, then the question you entered is used verbatim as the concept.