data sourceAny repository of data from which documents can be retrieved, such as the Web, relational and nonrelational databases, and content management systems.
data source typeA grouping of data sources according to the protocol that is used to access the data.
Date rangeA 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.
Deep navigatorsA 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
diacriticsA 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.
Dictionary/ThesaurusWithin the context of search, a dictionary supports linguistic processing of content and queries against a list of words/terms/phrases in order to improve…
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…
Directed searchA 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…
discovererA function of a crawler that determines which data sources are available for the crawler to retrieve information from.
distinguished nameA name that uniquely identifies an object by using the relative distinguished name for the object, plus the names of container objects and domains that…
documentFed. R. Civ. P. 34(a) defines a document as including writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, phonorecords, and other data compilations.
Document elementA document element is a part of a document within the document processing framework.
Document Object ModelAn API for accessing and manipulating XML documents as tree structures. DOM provides platform-neutral, language-neutral interfaces that enables programs…
Document processing pipelineThe document processing pipeline is a sequential set of pre-index document processing stages.
Document summaryA document summary represents the subset of the matching documents that is returned with a query result.
Document summary fieldThe 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…
Document vectorA 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…
Document-level securityWithin a search engine document-level security implies that the search index provides the same document access control granularity as the source content…
Document-processing stageThe document-processing stage may modify, remove, or add information to a document, such as adding new meta information for linguistic processing, or…
Domino Document Manager cabinetA Domino Document Manager database that is used to organize documents. Cabinets hold Domino databases.
Duplicate detectionSearch engines may apply different levels of duplicate detection. Exact duplicates means the same document, but located in different repositories.
Dynamic concept extractionThe ability to mine concepts from data present in the result set of a query through statistical and linguistic analysis. See also Entity extraction
Dynamic drill-downA navigation tool for structured data; it provides multidimensional drill-down in structured data based on facets of content.
Dynamic rankThe process by which rank components are computed during matching related to the level of match between document and query.
dynamic rankingA 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.
dynamic summarizationA type of summarization in which the search terms are highlighted and the search results contain phrases that best represent the concepts of the document…
Dynamic teaserA short summary of a document, generated based on the actual query, showing the regions of the document matching the query - with the query terms…