Enterprise Search

Enterprise Search terms

1. Absolute boosting Absolute boosting enables a document to be consistently displayed at a given position in the result set when a user searches with a specific query.
2. Accent normalization Character normalization can preserve both original and normalized forms for accented words (e.g. hôtel).
3. access control list A list that identifies the users who can access the associated object and that specifies the user's access rights to that object.
4. access control list (ACL) (ACL) In Windows-based systems, a list of access control entries (ACE) that apply to an entire object, a set of the object's properties, or an individual…
5. Adjacent searching Commonly refered to as proximity search.  An extension to Boolean searching, this technique checks the position of terms and only matches those…
6. administrative role A classification of a user that determines the functions that the user can do in the enterprise search administration console.
7. ALERT Automated Local Event Reporting in Real Time. Network of automatic raingauges that transmit via VHF radio link when precipitation occurs.
8. Alert engine A matching engine which performs matching of incoming documents against stored queries (triggers). A match generates an alert.
9. Alert query An alert query is the set of filtering conditions an end-user or external application sends to the Alert Engine.
10. analysis engine See text analysis engine.
11. analysis results The information that is produced by annotators. Analysis results, which correspond to the information that you want to search for, are written to a data…
12. Anchor text An Anchor text is the textual components of web hyperlinks (text links or ‘alt' text associated with image hyperlinks).
13. annotation Adding pertinent information such as gene coded for, amino acid sequence, or other commentary to the database entry of raw sequence of DNA bases.
14. annotator A software component that performs specific linguistic analysis tasks and produces and records annotations.
15. Anti-phrasing Identifying word sequences in queries that do not contribute essentially to the query's meaning, such as "Where can I find" or "Where is".
16. Application programming interface (API) A set of definitions that you can make use of in writing programs. In the context of Java, these are the packages, classes, and interfaces that can be…
17. Approximate matching Matching a query term and a term within a document based on approximations. Such approximations can be based on spell check (see Spell Checking) or…
18. Asian language tokenization Tokenization (word segmentation) for Asian languages requires special treatment.
19. Authority One dimension of search relevancy. This indicates that the document is considered to be an authority for this query.
20. Average query response time The average time it takes for the search engine to respond to a given query. There are typically two times that can be measured: 1) the average response…
21. Benchmarking To measure a process or practice according to specified standards or references
22. Bigram A bigram is another term for a 2-word phrase. It can also be seen as an N-gram where N=2
23. Boolean Search The term 'Boolean' refers to a system of logic developed by an early computer pioneer, George Boole.
24. Boolean Search or Boolean Query A form of logical comparison. Boolean operators let you define whether multiple search terms are matched within a text block.
25. boost class A specification that can influence the relative rank of a document in the search results.
26. boost word A word that can influence the relevant rank of a document in the search results.
27. Boosting Boosting may be used to alter the relevancy value of a document compared to other documents in a search index, typically because it is perceived to be a…
28. Boundary match The ability to limit a query term/phrase to the start and/or end of an indexed field/parameter.
29. Call-backs Programmatic alerts produced by an API. For a search platform, this is usually related to the content processing and indexing status of a document in…
30. Case sensitive/insensitive searching Search engines will most often normalize words to lower case. Some search applications, though, may want to use case sensitive search against specific…
31. Categorization Categorization is the process of organizing pieces of information into topical categories.
32. category A word, phrase, or number used to group documents in a view.
33. category tree A hierarchy of categories that is displayed in the enterprise search administration console.
34. CCL (Common Communication Layer) The communication infrastructure that unites the various components (controller, parser, crawler, indexer) of WebSphere® Information Integrator…
35. certificate Digital signature combining data verification and encryption key. See PKI Digital Signature.
36. certificate authority A trusted organization that issues public key certificates and provides identification to the bearer.
37. character normalization A process in which the variant forms of a character, such as capitalization and diacritical marks, are reduced to a common form.
38. Classification or Categorization The process of organizing pieces of information into topical categories. Usually, these are hierarchical trees, with the most general topics at the top…
39. clitic A word that syntactically functions separately but is phonetically connected to another word.
40. Collection The capture or obtaining of plant or animal specimens. This can include obtaining specimens for scientific study, pets, or illegal trade.
41. Collection-level security The application tier will assign different authorization levels to various collections within the search index.
42. common analysis structure A structure that stores a document that is being analyzed by a text analysis engine.
43. Completeness In relation to relevancy, a gauge of how well the document matches superior document contexts such as the title or the URL.
44. Concept extraction The ability to mine concepts from data using linguistic analysis.
45. content In an XML document, the part that occurs after the prolog, including the root element and everything it contains.
46. Content aggregation The bringing together of content from multiple source repositories for retrieval at a later time.
47. Content Connector A content connector extracts content from an external content repository (file systems, content management systems, databases, collaboration applications)…
48. Content management system (CMS) A software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation and publishing of documents and other content.
49. Content routing In a large search system the index is split into multiple columns/partitions. It is often desired to choose different algorithms for routing of content to…
50. Context relevancy One dimension of search relevancy. The importance of a term/phrase/entity match depends on the matching context.
51. Contextual entity extraction Extracted entities (see Entity extraction) can be automatically annotated to semantic structures in the text, such as paragraphs or sentences.
52. Contextual Insight Next generation search intelligence that dynamically identifies relationships so that the users can quickly find facts and answers to questions like…
53. crawl space A set of sources that match specified patterns (such as database names, file system paths, domain names, IP addresses, and URLs) that a crawler reads from…
54. Crawler A software program that retrieves documents from data sources and gathers information that can be used to create search indexes.
55. Crawling The act of accessing Web servers and/or file systems in order to extract information to feed into the enterprise search platform.
56. credential Detailed information, which is acquired during authentication, that describes the user, any group associations, and other security-related identity…
57. data source Any repository of data from which documents can be retrieved, such as the Web, relational and nonrelational databases, and content management systems.
58. data source type A grouping of data sources according to the protocol that is used to access the data.
59. Date range A search engine may provide an option to search for documents modified on a specific date, before a date, after a date, or between two dates.
60. Deep navigators A type of dynamic drill-down navigator which applies on-the-fly aggregation of result values across the entire result set for a query. See also Navigator
61. dequeue To remove items from a queue.
62. diacritics A mark that is added to a letter to change a word's pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words, such as an accent mark or the German umlaut.
63. Dictionary/Thesaurus Within the context of search, a dictionary supports linguistic processing of content and queries against a list of words/terms/phrases in order to improve…
64. DIIOP (Domino Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) A server task that runs on the server and works with the Domino Object Request Broker to allow communication between Java® applets created with the Notes…
65. Directed search A narrow search within a specified area of the indexed content. Users may choose to search within "news" if they want the latest updates on today's game…
66. discoverer A function of a crawler that determines which data sources are available for the crawler to retrieve information from.
67. distinguished name A name that uniquely identifies an object by using the relative distinguished name for the object, plus the names of container objects and domains that…
68. DMS (1) Defense Message System. (2) Dissimilar Mission Simulator.
69. document Fed. R. Civ. P. 34(a) defines a document as including writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, phonorecords, and other data compilations.
70. Document element A document element is a part of a document within the document processing framework.
71. Document Object Model An API for accessing and manipulating XML documents as tree structures. DOM provides platform-neutral, language-neutral interfaces that enables programs…
72. Document processing pipeline The document processing pipeline is a sequential set of pre-index document processing stages.
73. Document summary A document summary represents the subset of the matching documents that is returned with a query result.
74. Document summary field The content of an individual field within a document summary. The set of summary fields returned is typically a sub-set of the indexed fields of a…
75. Document vector A document vector is simply a set of (keyword, weight) pairs, where keyword is a word or a phrase associated with the document, and weight is a numerical…
76. Document-level security Within a search engine document-level security implies that the search index provides the same document access control granularity as the source content…
77. Document-processing stage The document-processing stage may modify, remove, or add information to a document, such as adding new meta information for linguistic processing, or…
78. Domino Document Manager cabinet A Domino Document Manager database that is used to organize documents. Cabinets hold Domino databases.
79. Domino Document Manager library A Domino Document Manager database that is the entry point to Domino Document Manager.
80. Duplicate detection Search engines may apply different levels of duplicate detection. Exact duplicates means the same document, but located in different repositories.
81. Dynamic concept extraction The ability to mine concepts from data present in the result set of a query through statistical and linguistic analysis. See also Entity extraction
82. Dynamic drill-down A navigation tool for structured data; it provides multidimensional drill-down in structured data based on facets of content.
83. Dynamic rank The process by which rank components are computed during matching related to the level of match between document and query.
84. dynamic ranking A type of ranking in which the terms in the query are analyzed with respect to the documents that are being searched to determine the rank of results.
85. dynamic summarization A type of summarization in which the search terms are highlighted and the search results contain phrases that best represent the concepts of the document…
86. Dynamic teaser A short summary of a document, generated based on the actual query, showing the regions of the document matching the query - with the query terms…
87. enqueue To place items in a queue.
88. enterprise search administrator An administrative role that enables a user to administer the entire enterprise search system.
89. Entity Extraction The ability of an enterprise search platform to parse and recognize informational entities, such as geographic names, personal names, and company names.
90. escape character A character that suppresses or selects a special meaning for one or more characters that follow.
91. ETL-type tools Extract, transform, and load (ETL) is a data-integration function that involves extracting data from outside sources, transforming it to fit business…
92. Exact Match Match query terms to document words exactly. This will not allow fuzzy matching based on spell check and/or linguistic normalization.
93. external data source A data source for federation that is not crawled, parsed, or indexed by WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition.
94. False positives When a search returns results that do not contain what was searched for.
95. feature path A path that is used to access the value of a feature in a UIMA feature structure.
96. feature structure The underlying data structure that represents the result of text analysis. A feature structure is an attribute-value structure.
97. Federated search In a federated search, users receive results from multiple search and retrieval systems - for example, from other search engines, commercial information…
98. federation A pair of realms or domains that have established a federation trust.
99. field Field A region of space at each point of which a given physical or mathematical quantity has some definite value.
100. Field collapsing Used in order to collapse a group of results with similar value for a given field to a single entry in the result set.