False positivesWhen a search returns results that do not contain what was searched for.
feature pathA path that is used to access the value of a feature in a UIMA feature structure.
feature structureThe underlying data structure that represents the result of text analysis. A feature structure is an attribute-value structure.
Federated searchIn a federated search, users receive results from multiple search and retrieval systems - for example, from other search engines, commercial information…
federationA pair of realms or domains that have established a federation trust.
fieldField A region of space at each point of which a given physical or mathematical quantity has some definite value.
Field collapsingUsed in order to collapse a group of results with similar value for a given field to a single entry in the result set.
fielded searchA query that is restricted to a particular field.
File TraverserA tool for accessing the files (e.g. Microsoft Word, HTML, and XML files) thatÃÂ are located on a standard file system in order to bring them into the…
FootprintThe land or water area covered by a project. This includes direct physical coverage (i.e.
free text searchA search in which the search term is expressed as free-form text.
FreshnessThe "age" of the document compared to the time of query.
Freshness boostingEnhances relevancy by boosting documents based on their relative age - that is, compared to the time of query.
full-text indexA resource that is compiled by the Index engine to enable full-text search of documents, document properties, and content stored outside the workspace but…
Full-text sortingSorting of search results based on the full textual content of a field (or a configurable number of characters).
Fuzzy matchingExact matching is very strict: either a word matches or it doesn't. An attempt to improve search recall by matching more than the exact word: fuzzy…
Fuzzy SearchSubjective content searching (as compared to word searching of objective data).