Interlisp.org Search with Vertex AI

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Bill Stumbo

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May 4, 2026, 12:10:48 AM (7 days ago) May 4
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I have an initial implementation of AI assisted search up and running on the staging site:  https://stumbo.github.io/InterlispDraft.github.io/

Currently the only material indexed and used in generating search results are the contents of the Interlisp.org site.  This makes the search results somewhat rudimentary.  Results will return an AI summary, if there is enough material to generate one, along with citations of the reference material used to generate the summary, and the top results (generally the first several will be the cited works).  

Here is an example:

While the results insufficient for replacing our current search mechanism, it illustrates a working pathway.

Future steps will be to explore how to bring more material into the data store (our GitHub repos and their associated issues, email, along with other reference material we identify).

The internal Vertex AI engine is fronted by a Cloud based function that proxies requests, limiting inbound request only to those that originate on Interlisp.org and the staging site.  This should provide a reasonable gating function - we can further tune this as we see necessary.

I have not put up a formal PR, however the branch containing the code is available in the Interlisp.github.io repository as bs22_vertexAI.


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Larry Masinter

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May 4, 2026, 1:13:23 AM (7 days ago) May 4
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Great news. Getting the bibliography documents into the training store would be great, because getting things into the bibliography requires some judgement and curating of sources, and less succeptable.  
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