Keyword Search

A search for documents containing one or more words that are specified by a user.

The process of examining electronic documents in a collection or system by matching a keyword or keywords with instances in the various documents. Keyword searches can only be done on electronic files in their native format, in searchable PDF, or in files that have been associated with an OCR text file. Standard keyword searches will return a positive result only if the exact keyword or a close derivative is specified. Search derivatives returned by litigation support search engines commonly include 'stemming'. Stemming includes grammatical variations on a word, such that a search for "applied" would also return "applying", "applies", and "apply".

A search for documents containing one or more words that are specified by a user.