Enterprise Search terms starting with A

20 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) 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…