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Table of Contents
TopQuadrant Technology Research ............................................................................... 1
Dictionary of Search Terminology .................................................................................. 1
Search Technology Overview........................................................................................... 5
How Search Works ................................................................................................... 5
Categorization and Search ....................................................................................... 6
The Reasons for publishing and using a Dictionary of Search Terminology...... 6
Dictionary .......................................................................................................................... 6
Adaptive probabilistic concept modeling (APCM) ................................................ 6
Boolean Search .......................................................................................................... 6
Bayesian Inference or Bayesian Statistics ..................................................... 6
Capitalization ............................................................................................................ 6
Case Based Reasoning .............................................................................................. 6
Categorization ........................................................................................................... 6
Controlled Vocabulary ............................................................................................. 6
Corpus ........................................................................................................................ 6
Dublin Core ............................................................................................................... 6
Fuzzy Search.............................................................................................................. 6
Genre Detection......................................................................................................... 6
Grammatical analysis ............................................................................................... 6
Guided Search ........................................................................................................... 6
Inbound Link............................................................................................................. 6
Index File ................................................................................................................... 6
Information Gain ...................................................................................................... 6
Information Visualization ........................................................................................ 6
Inverse Document Frequency (IDF)........................................................................ 6
Inverted File .............................................................................................................. 6
Keyword Search ........................................................................................................ 6
Keyword targeting .................................................................................................... 6
Knowledge Extraction .............................................................................................. 6
Knowledge Model...................................................................................................... 6
Knowledge Representation Language..................................................................... 6
Language Identification............................................................................................ 6
Lexical analysis or Tokenizing................................................................................. 6
Link Tracking............................................................................................................ 6
Log File Analysis ....................................................................................................... 6
Metadata .................................................................................................................... 6
Meta Search Engine.................................................................................................. 6
Meta Tag .................................................................................................................... 6
Natural Language Query.......................................................................................... 6
Natural Language Processing .................................................................................. 6
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Navigational Search .................................................................................................. 6
Ontology..................................................................................................................... 6
Ontology Model ......................................................................................................... 6
Parametric Search..................................................................................................... 6
Pattern Matching ...................................................................................................... 6
Phonetic Analysis ...................................................................................................... 6
Phrase Extraction...................................................................................................... 6
Precision..................................................................................................................... 6
Pragmatic Analysis ................................................................................................... 6
Proximity Search....................................................................................................... 6
Query by Example .................................................................................................... 6
Ranking...................................................................................................................... 6
Recall .......................................................................................................................... 6
Relevance ................................................................................................................... 6
Relevance Modeling Technology ............................................................................. 6
Results Management................................................................................................. 6
Semantic Analysis ..................................................................................................... 6
Semantic Web............................................................................................................ 6
Similarity Measures .................................................................................................. 6
Spiders or Crawlers .................................................................................................. 6
Stemming ................................................................................................................... 6
Soundex Search ......................................................................................................... 6
Summarization .......................................................................................................... 6
Syntactic Analysis ..................................................................................................... 6
Taxonomy .................................................................................................................. 6
Term Frequency (TF) ............................................................................................... 6
Term Vectors ............................................................................................................. 6
Thesaurus................................................................................................................... 6
Word Exclusion and Meaningless Terms ............................................................... 6
Word Location .......................................................................................................... 6
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Emerging Standards ......................................................................................................... 6
Knowledge Representation....................................................................................... 6
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About TopQuadrant ......................................................................................................... 6
Additional TopQuadrant Technology Briefings are Available .................................... 6
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