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Enterprise Search terms

  1. quick link An association between a URI and keywords and phrases.
  2. Range restrictions The ability to limit a search to a specified range of a numerical metadata field. For example, a search for a digital camera between $250 and $400.
  3. Rank profile A rank profile concept enables full control of the relative weight of each component for a given query (for example, how important an article's title is…
  4. Ranking Ranking is a method of assigning a value to an investment in relation to comparable investments by using a scale.
  5. Ranking models Models used to determine how closely content matches a particular query, and whether it should be included in the search results.
  6. Real-time Indexing The ability to index content with short latency, typically within seconds from when the enterprise search platform receives a document for indexing.
  7. Recall For a query, recall means the ability to retrieve as many documents as possible that match or are related to a query.
  8. Relative boosting This enables a document to always be displayed among the first 20 documents in the result list, provided a user searched with a specific query.
  9. Relevance or Relevance ranking Relevancy is the measure of how well the indexed page answers the question. Only the searcher can actually define how relevant a document is, in relation…
  10. remote federator A server federator that federates a set of searchable objects.
  11. Result set The result set is a set of Document Summaries returned for a query.
  12. Result-side (shallow) navigators A type of dynamic drill-down navigator. Drill-down navigators are created across an extended but non-exhaustive result set (typically, the 200 highest…
  13. Results clustering Grouping similar results together to make it easy to see which results relate to each other.
  14. Results transformation The algorithmic processing of search results, which includes result-set reordering (e.g.
  15. Results-based binning Results-based binning performs ad-hoc clustering of results into dynamic bins based on value distribution for this parameter in the results.
  16. Robots Exclusion Protocol A protocol that allows Web site administrators to indicate to visiting robots which parts of their site should not be visited by the robot.
  17. ROOM Real-time Object-Oriented Methodology.
  18. Rows and columns A search installation may be configured in a row/column configuration for performance and fault-tolerance reasons.
  19. rule-based category Categories that are created by rules that specify which documents are associated with which categories.
  20. Scalability The capacity of a system to expand without requiring major reconfiguration or re-entry of data.
  21. scope what is included - as in the scope of a claim
  22. Scope field A scope field contains hierarchically structured content. It enables schema flexibility and the ability to conserve hierarchical relationships rather than…
  23. Scope Search Scope Search enables search in hierarchical content structures without a need to know the schema in advance.
  24. search application A program that processes queries, searches the index, returns the search results, and retrieves the source documents for collections in an enterprise…
  25. search cache A buffer that holds the data and results of previous search requests.
  26. Search cluster A search cluster is a group of search nodes (row/column matrix) that shares the same index schema (index profile)
  27. Search Engine A program that enables search for keywords or phrases, such as on web pages throughout the World Wide Web.
  28. search index files The set of files in which an index is stored in the search engine.
  29. 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.
  30. search results A list of documents that match the search request.
  31. Search terms The search terms are the words entered by the searcher, which are part of the query, along with other instructions.
  32. security token A cryptographically signed data unit that expresses one or more claims.
  33. seed URL The starting point for a crawl.
  34. Segmentation A process by which path control divides basic information units into smaller units, called BIU segments, to accommodate smaller buffer sizes in adjacent…
  35. Semantic analysis This means applying a combination of general and specific thesauri and ontologies, and automatic phrasing, -for example, to understand the…
  36. Semantic indexing Semantic indexing of content by detection and annotation of sentences, paragraphs and other semantic structures in unstructured content.
  37. Sentiment analysis The evaluation of the sentiment - typically positive or negative - of the text based on the usage of language.
  38. servlet For more information, see http://www.apache.org.
  39. 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.
  40. 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…
  41. Spell Check Optimization The process of optimizing a spell check dictionary towards a live search index.
  42. 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…
  43. 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…
  44. 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…
  45. static summarization A type of summarization in which the search results contain a specified, stored summary from the document. Contrast with dynamic summarization.
  46. Statistics In relation to relevancy, statistically how well the content of the overall document matches the query.
  47. Stemming Crushed stone, soil, sand, or drill cuttings used to plug the unloaded portion of a drill hole.
  48. Stop Word A word that is commonly used, such as the, an, or and, that is ignored by a search application.
  49. stop word removal The process of removing stop words from the query to ignore common words and return more relevant results.
  50. Stop words Words which are very frequent and have little meaning. They are removed and not indexed.
  51. 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…
  52. Structural analysis Structural analysis allows documents to be classified based on structure and linguistic analysis (for example, the home page of an Internet service…
  53. Subject-Matter Expert (SME) A subject-matter expert (SME) is a person knowledgeable about a given topic or subject area.
  54. 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…
  55. summarization The process of including sentences in search results to briefly describe the content of a document.
  56. Supervised clustering Supervised clustering provides a grouped view based on pre-defined categories, and maps results to pre-determined categories (that is, category…
  57. synonym dictionary A dictionary that enables users to search for synonyms of their query terms when they search a collection.
  58. Synonym expansion When a query or document is expanded with a defined list of synonyms for the words it originally contains.
  59. 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).
  60. Syntactical patterns Used for detecting information entities such as people, places, product codes, and prices.
  61. Taxonomy The science of categorization, or classification, of things based on a predetermined system.
  62. text analysis The process of extracting semantics and other information from text to enhance the retrievability of data in a collection.
  63. text analysis engine A software component that is responsible for finding and representing context and semantic content in text.
  64. text-based scoring The process of assigning an integer value to a document that signifies the relevance of the document with respect to the terms in a query.
  65. TF-IDF TF and IDF are used together as a measure of the statistical strength of a given word relative to a query.
  66. theme extraction A type of concept extraction that automatically recognizes significant vocabulary items in text documents to extract the theme or topic of a document.
  67. Thesaurus A thesaurus stores synonyms and related words. This allows a search engine to map city planning to land use, for example, and show the relevant pages even…
  68. Token See definition for: access token
  69. Tokenization Tokenization involves detection of white space characters and other symbols that separate words from each other and that are not relevant to the matching…
  70. tokenizer A text segmentation program that scans text and determines if and when a series of characters can be recognized as a token.
  71. trailing character A character that holds the last position in a word.
  72. UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) An IBM® architecture that defines a framework for implementing systems for the analysis of unstructured data.
  73. Unicode-based white space segmentation A method of tokenization that uses Unicode character properties to distinguish between token and separator characters.
  74. Unsupervised clustering Unsupervised clustering provides grouping of related documents on the basis of their content without referring to a taxonomy; it creates a…
  75. URI A character string used to identify a resource (such as a file) from anywhere on the Internet by type and location.
  76. URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) A compact string of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource.
  77. URL Uniform Resource Locator (internet protocol term).
  78. URL (Uniform Resource Locator) The Internet address for a document, file, or other resource. It describes the protocol required to access the resource, the host where it can be found…
  79. URN (Universal Resource Name) An Internet protocol element that consists of a short string of characters that conform to a certain syntax.
  80. User agent An application that browses the Web and leaves information about itself at the sites that it visits. In enterprise search, the Web crawler is a user agent.
  81. User interface (UI) The end-user application linking a person to a computer program. Most modern applications leverage a Graphical UI (GUI) to accept input and display…
  82. Variations (linguistic) Linguistic variations include different spelling variations for the same words. This is typically language specific related to e.g. country differences.
  83. Vectors Vectors are a kind of document signature (word-weight pairs) representing a document's content in a way that allows comparison between documents.
  84. Web crawler A class of robot software that explores the Web by retrieving a Web document and following the links within that document.
  85. weighted term search A query in which certain terms are given more importance.
  86. Wildcard A wildcard character can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string.
  87. wildcard character A character that is used to represent optional characters at the front, middle, or end of a search term.
  88. word stemming A process of linguistic normalization in which the variant forms of a word are reduced to a common form.
  89. XML searching The ability to search into XML structures, including hierarchical content structures. Industry standards for XML searching includes XPath and XQuery.
  90. XPath (XML Path Language) A language that uniquely identifies or addresses parts of a source XML document.
  91. Zero results A futile query; a query that returns 0 (no) results.

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