lemmaThe canonical form of a word. Lemmas are significant in highly inflected languages such as Czech.
LemmatizationUtilizing lemmatization enables the search system to recognize and match different grammatical forms of a word.
Lemmatization by expansionA type of lemmatization which expands words into the full set of inflected forms.
Lemmatization by reductionA type of lemmatization, also referred to as "base form reduction", that normalize indexed terms and query terms to their grammatical base form.
lexical affinityThe relationship of search words that appear close to each other in the document. Lexical affinity is used to calculate the relevancy of a result.
libraryA collection of cells, usually bacteria or yeast, that have been transformed with recombinant vectors carrying DNA inserts from a single species.
ligatureTwo or more characters that are connected so that they appear as one character, such as joining f and i form the ligature ï¬Â.
linguistic searchA search type that browses, retrieves, and indexes a document with terms that are reduced to their base form (for example, so that "mice" is indexed as…
LinguisticsThe study of the nature, structure, and variation of language. In advanced enterprise search platforms, linguistics analysis enables transformation of…
link analysisA method that is based on the analysis of hyperlinks between documents and used to determine what pages in the collection are important to users.
Link cardinalityThe number of links in a set that refer to a given document. It is best used to determine the relevancy of a Web page by factoring in how many other pages…
local federatorA client federator that federates over a set of searchable objects.
Lotus QuickPlace placeA Web venue that is provided by Lotus QuickPlace that enables geographically dispersed participants to collaborate on projects and communicate online in a…
Lotus QuickPlace roomA partitioned area of a Lotus QuickPlace place that is restricted to authorized members who share a common interest and a need to work collectively.