Call-backsProgrammatic alerts produced by an API. For a search platform, this is usually related to the content processing and indexing status of a document in…
Case sensitive/insensitive searchingSearch engines will most often normalize words to lower case. Some search applications, though, may want to use case sensitive search against specific…
CategorizationCategorization is the process of organizing pieces of information into topical categories.
categoryA word, phrase, or number used to group documents in a view.
category treeA hierarchy of categories that is displayed in the enterprise search administration console.
CCL (Common Communication Layer)The communication infrastructure that unites the various components (controller, parser, crawler, indexer) of WebSphereî Information Integrator…
certificateDigital signature combining data verification and encryption key. See PKI Digital Signature.
certificate authorityA trusted organization that issues public key certificates and provides identification to the bearer.
character normalizationA process in which the variant forms of a character, such as capitalization and diacritical marks, are reduced to a common form.
Classification or CategorizationThe process of organizing pieces of information into topical categories. Usually, these are hierarchical trees, with the most general topics at the top…
cliticA word that syntactically functions separately but is phonetically connected to another word.
CollectionThe capture or obtaining of plant or animal specimens. This can include obtaining specimens for scientific study, pets, or illegal trade.
Collection-level securityThe application tier will assign different authorization levels to various collections within the search index.
common analysis structureA structure that stores a document that is being analyzed by a text analysis engine.
CompletenessIn relation to relevancy, a gauge of how well the document matches superior document contexts such as the title or the URL.
Concept extractionThe ability to mine concepts from data using linguistic analysis.
contentIn an XML document, the part that occurs after the prolog, including the root element and everything it contains.
Content aggregationThe bringing together of content from multiple source repositories for retrieval at a later time.
Content ConnectorA content connector extracts content from an external content repository (file systems, content management systems, databases, collaboration applications)…
Content management system (CMS)A software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation and publishing of documents and other content.
Content routingIn 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…
Context relevancyOne dimension of search relevancy. The importance of a term/phrase/entity match depends on the matching context.
Contextual entity extractionExtracted entities (see Entity extraction) can be automatically annotated to semantic structures in the text, such as paragraphs or sentences.
Contextual InsightNext generation search intelligenceÃÂ that dynamically identifies relationships so that the users can quickly find facts and answers to questions like…
crawl spaceA 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…
CrawlerA software program that retrieves documents from data sources and gathers information that can be used to create search indexes.
CrawlingThe act of accessing Web servers and/or file systems in order to extract information to feed into the enterprise search platform.
credentialDetailed information, which is acquired during authentication, that describes the user, any group associations, and other security-related identity…