Enterprise Search terms starting with S

41 terms

  1. Scalability The capacity of a system to expand without requiring major reconfiguration or re-entry of data.
  2. scope what is included - as in the scope of a claim
  3. Scope field A scope field contains hierarchically structured content. It enables schema flexibility and the ability to conserve hierarchical relationships rather than…
  4. Scope Search Scope Search enables search in hierarchical content structures without a need to know the schema in advance.
  5. search application A program that processes queries, searches the index, returns the search results, and retrieves the source documents for collections in an enterprise…
  6. search cache A buffer that holds the data and results of previous search requests.
  7. Search cluster A search cluster is a group of search nodes (row/column matrix) that shares the same index schema (index profile)
  8. Search Engine A program that enables search for keywords or phrases, such as on web pages throughout the World Wide Web.
  9. search index files The set of files in which an index is stored in the search engine.
  10. Search Profile A concept used in order to identify the set of search attributes common for a given search application. This includes global filter constraints (e.g.
  11. search results A list of documents that match the search request.
  12. Search terms The search terms are the words entered by the searcher, which are part of the query, along with other instructions.
  13. security token A cryptographically signed data unit that expresses one or more claims.
  14. seed URL The starting point for a crawl.
  15. Segmentation A process by which path control divides basic information units into smaller units, called BIU segments, to accommodate smaller buffer sizes in adjacent…
  16. Semantic analysis This means applying a combination of general and specific thesauri and ontologies, and automatic phrasing, -for example, to understand the…
  17. Semantic indexing Semantic indexing of content by detection and annotation of sentences, paragraphs and other semantic structures in unstructured content.
  18. Sentiment analysis The evaluation of the sentiment - typically positive or negative - of the text based on the usage of language.
  19. servlet For more information, see http://www.apache.org.
  20. Similarity searching The ability to search for similar documents. Similar in a search context may be similar to a document in a result set or similar to an example document.
  21. soft error page A special page that explains the problem in detail if an HTTP server cannot return the page that a client requests and configures the HTTP server to…
  22. Spell Check Optimization The process of optimizing a spell check dictionary towards a live search index.
  23. Spell checking Individual query terms and phrases are spell-checked against a dictionary. The spell check algorithm is normally based on the edit distance between a…
  24. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) A security protocol for the Internet and Intranets that provides communications privacy and authentication for IBM® Lotus® Domino™ server tasks that…
  25. static ranking A type of ranking in which factors about the documents that are being ranked, such as date, the number of links that point to the document, and so on…
  26. static summarization A type of summarization in which the search results contain a specified, stored summary from the document. Contrast with dynamic summarization.
  27. Statistics In relation to relevancy, statistically how well the content of the overall document matches the query.
  28. Stemming Crushed stone, soil, sand, or drill cuttings used to plug the unloaded portion of a drill hole.
  29. Stop Word A word that is commonly used, such as the, an, or and, that is ignored by a search application.
  30. stop word removal The process of removing stop words from the query to ignore common words and return more relevant results.
  31. Stop words Words which are very frequent and have little meaning. They are removed and not indexed.
  32. Storage Area Network (SAN) A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a network of storage disks. In large enterprises, a SAN connects multiple servers to a centralized pool of disk…
  33. Structural analysis Structural analysis allows documents to be classified based on structure and linguistic analysis (for example, the home page of an Internet service…
  34. Subject-Matter Expert (SME) A subject-matter expert (SME) is a person knowledgeable about a given topic or subject area.
  35. Substring search Searching for parts of a string as with a wildcard search ("*term*"). A word or token (for Asian language documents) is split up in smaller entities, so…
  36. summarization The process of including sentences in search results to briefly describe the content of a document.
  37. Supervised clustering Supervised clustering provides a grouped view based on pre-defined categories, and maps results to pre-determined categories (that is, category…
  38. synonym dictionary A dictionary that enables users to search for synonyms of their query terms when they search a collection.
  39. Synonym expansion When a query or document is expanded with a defined list of synonyms for the words it originally contains.
  40. Syntactic analysis Used to analyze query through entity/phrase extraction, anti-phrasing, and to remove word-sense ambiguity (the color orange versus the fruit, for example).
  41. Syntactical patterns Used for detecting information entities such as people, places, product codes, and prices.