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Enterprise Search terms

101. fielded search A query that is restricted to a particular field.
102. File Traverser A tool for accessing the files (e.g. Microsoft Word, HTML, and XML files) that are located on a standard file system in order to bring them into the…
103. Footprint The land or water area covered by a project. This includes direct physical coverage (i.e.
104. free text search A search in which the search term is expressed as free-form text.
105. Freshness The "age" of the document compared to the time of query.
106. Freshness boosting Enhances relevancy by boosting documents based on their relative age - that is, compared to the time of query.
107. full-text index A resource that is compiled by the Index engine to enable full-text search of documents, document properties, and content stored outside the workspace but…
108. Full-text sorting Sorting of search results based on the full textual content of a field (or a configurable number of characters).
109. Fuzzy matching Exact 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…
110. Fuzzy Search Subjective content searching (as compared to word searching of objective data).
111. Geo enabled search The ability to sort, filter and/or rank documents based on their geographical distance from a given source position, typically the position of the…
112. Geo/Location In relation to relevancy, the importance of location in relation to the query term.
113. Golden set The number of documents and queries that are to be used for testing; a minimum of 2,000 documents and at least 50 queries.
114. hybrid search A combined boolean search and free text search.
115. Identity Management The ability to encrypt user credentials in a secure store.
116. Impression logging The ability to log all query results that are displayed to the end-user. This means that each query result generates an impression log entry for…
117. Incremental indexing Incremental indexing enables an efficient combination of freshness and scalability in a search node.
118. Index Statistical measure of the state of the stock market or economy based on the performance of stocks or other components.
119. Index profile The configuration file that defines the schema for a searchable index. This includes fields and properties of the index, similar to an XML schema, but…
120. index queue A list of requests for index reorganization or requests for index refresh to be processed.
121. index refresh The process of adding new information to an existing index in an enterprise search system. Contrast with index reorganization.
122. index reorganization The process of building the index in an enterprise search system. Contrast with index refresh.
123. Index-based security The resolution of a repository's document ACL permissions at query time by the index itself through the use of stored meta-data.
124. Indexing latency The time from when a document is added to the search system to when the document is included in the searchable index.
125. information extraction A type of concept extraction that automatically recognizes significant vocabulary items, such as names, terms, and expressions, in text documents.
126. Ingestion rate The number of documents per unit time that an enterprise search platform can process.
127. intranet A private network that uses Internet-related technologies to provide services within an organization.
128. IP Address A string of four numbers separated by periods used to represent a computer on the Internet.
129. JavaScript A Web scripting language that is used in both browsers and Web servers. Like all scripting languages, it is used primarily to tie other components…
130. JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) An industry standard for database-independent connectivity between the Java platform and a wide range of databases.
131. JSP (Java Server Pages) A server scripting technology that enables Java code to be dynamically embedded within Web pages (HTML files) and executed when the page is served, in…
132. JVM (Java virtual machine) A software implementation of a processor that runs compiled Java code (applets and applications).
133. Katakana A character set that consists of symbols that are used in one of the two common Japanese phonetic alphabets, which is used primarily to write foreign…
134. keystore file A key database file that contains public keys that are stored as signer certificates and private keys that are stored in personal certificates.
135. language identification An enterprise search function that determines the language of a document.
136. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) Enables LDAP clients to access directory information from an Exchange directory. [Exchange 5.5]
137. lemma The canonical form of a word. Lemmas are significant in highly inflected languages such as Czech.
138. Lemmatization Utilizing lemmatization enables the search system to recognize and match different grammatical forms of a word.
139. Lemmatization by expansion A type of lemmatization which expands words into the full set of inflected forms.
140. Lemmatization by reduction A type of lemmatization, also referred to as "base form reduction", that normalize indexed terms and query terms to their grammatical base form.
141. lexical affinity The relationship of search words that appear close to each other in the document. Lexical affinity is used to calculate the relevancy of a result.
142. library A collection of cells, usually bacteria or yeast, that have been transformed with recombinant vectors carrying DNA inserts from a single species.
143. ligature Two or more characters that are connected so that they appear as one character, such as joining f and i form the ligature fi.
144. linguistic search A 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…
145. Linguistics The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language. In advanced enterprise search platforms, linguistics analysis enables transformation of…
146. link analysis A method that is based on the analysis of hyperlinks between documents and used to determine what pages in the collection are important to users.
147. Link cardinality The 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…
148. local federator A client federator that federates over a set of searchable objects.
149. Lotus QuickPlace place A Web venue that is provided by Lotus QuickPlace that enables geographically dispersed participants to collaborate on projects and communicate online in a…
150. Lotus QuickPlace room A partitioned area of a Lotus QuickPlace place that is restricted to authorized members who share a common interest and a need to work collectively.
151. masking character A character that is used to represent optional characters at the front, middle, and end of a search term.
152. metadata Metadata is information about a particular data set which may describe, for example, how, when, and by whom it was received, created, accessed, and/or…
153. MIME type An Internet standard for identifying the type of object that is being transferred across the Internet.
154. Mining Usually removal of soil or rock having value because of its chemical composition.
155. model-based category A taxonomy of predefined terms that is used to determine the subject of a document so that the document can be indexed and searched with documents that…
156. monitor (MAH-nih-ter) In medicine, to regularly watch and check a person or condition to see if there is any change.
157. More like this A way to refine search by identifying the right set of documents and then locating similar documents.
158. Morphologic analysis Used in query analysis, this analysis includes all forms of a given word via linguistic normalization (lemmatization).
159. Morphology (mor-FAH-loh-jee) The science of the form and structure of organisms (plants, animals, and other forms of life).
160. Multi-level sorting Sorting by multiple fields. Both text and integer fields may be sorted upon (ascending or descending). Field sorting may be combined with rank sorting.
161. n-gram segmentation A method of analysis that considers overlapping sequences of a given number of characters as a single word rather than using blank space to delimit words…
162. Name value-pairs In a search context, name value-pairs are raw data that is normalized into a structured "tree" of information.
163. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Field of computer science concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.
164. natural language query A type of search that analyzes written expressions (such as "Who runs the finance department?") instead of a simple collection of keywords.
165. Navigation Information discovery through drill-down into query results. Navigation is possible both on document level attributes/entities and contextual entities…
166. Navigators Navigators deliver in-person outreach, education, and enrollment in both qualified health plans and public insurance options.
167. Network Attached Storage A specialized file server that connects to the network. A Network Attached Storage (NAS) device contains a slimmed-down (microkernel) operating system and…
168. newline character A control character that causes the print or display position to move down one line. Some systems require more than one character.
169. no-follow directive A directive in a Web page that instruct robots (such as the Web crawler) to not follow links found in those pages.
170. no-index directive A directive in a Web page that instruct robots (such as the Web crawler) to not include the contents of those pages in the index.
171. node Any device connected to network. PCs, servers, and printers are all nodes on the network.
172. Noun Phrase Extraction Noun Phrase Extraction implies that phrases like "competitive advantage", "key driver" and "sellers market" can be extracted and annotated to a document…
173. NRPC (Notes remote procedure call) The architectural layer of Lotus Notes® that is used for all Notes-to-Notes communication.
174. Offensive content filter An offensive content filter detects offensive content (sexual, drugs, violence) in a document and can tag the document to be offensive and based on that…
175. Ontology An ontology defines the common words and concepts (meanings) used to describe and represent an area of knowledge, and so standardizes the meanings.
176. operator A prokaryotic regulatory element that interacts with a repressor to control the transcription of adjacent structural genes.
177. Orthographic analysis Orthographic analysis is used in checking for typos and, official variants (for example, German spelling).
178. Parametric search Parametric searching allows people to find items of interest based on an individual item's parameters, or particular characteristics.
179. parser A module that reads in XML data from an input source and breaks it into chunks so that your program knows when it is working with a tag, an attribute, or…
180. parsing Usually applied to the action of a compiler in analyzing a program source file for syntax errors.
181. Phonetic search Phonetic search is the analysis of words that are pronounced similarly in order to detect all possible variants.
182. Phrase detection The recognition and grouping of an idiom such as "home run" or "Christmas tree".
183. Phrase searching A search engine may provide an option to search a set of words as a phrase, either by typing in quotation marks (""), by using a command or clicking a…
184. Phrasing The recognition and grouping of an idiom such as "home run" or "Christmas tree."
185. place A virtual location that is visible in the portal where individuals and groups meet to collaborate.
186. popular ranking A ranking type that adds to a document's existing ranking based on the document's popularity.
187. Precision and Recall Precision is the ability to retrieve the most precise results. Higher precision means better relevance and more precise results, but may imply fewer…
188. processing engine archive A .pear zip archive file that includes a UIMA analysis engine and all of the resources required to use it for custom analysis in enterprise search.
189. Processing pipeline Sequential stages of processing within the search engine before the creation of final index of the content.
190. Proper name recognition Proper name recognition is a way of identifying word sequences in text that are defined as proper names or phrases in the appropriate dictionary.
191. Proximity boosting Documents that contain the query terms closer together are ranked higher than documents that contain these terms distributed throughout the document.
192. Proximity search An extension to Boolean searching, this technique checks the position of terms and only matches those within the specified distance.
193. proxy server A server that receives requests intended for another server and that acts on the client's behalf (as the client's proxy) to obtain the requested service.
194. Quality The degree to which a health or social service meets or exceeds established professional standards and user expectations.
195. Queries per second (QPS) The number of queries that the enterprise search platform will process in one second.
196. Query A request for identification of a set of assets, expressed in terms of a set of criteria, which the identified item must satisfy.
197. Query and result processing The application of algorithms to the original query or to the raw results returned by the search engine.
198. Query Syntax The semantic rules that must be observed when submitting queries to a search engine - for example, the use of parenthesis and Boolean operators.
199. Query term weight The ability to support different relevance weight for different terms in a query.
200. Query transformation The analysis and subsequent rewriting of a query, using linguistic transformations such as lemmatization and spell-checking.