Dictionaries provide an easy way for you to add your organization’s special terms to ATG Search. By doing so, you can significantly enhance and fine tune your search results. Special terms might include product names, company names, unique industry terms, etc. With dictionaries, you can add terms, term relationships, and synonyms.
ATG Search includes an English Sample Dictionary with an example hierarchy of terms, term relationships, and synonyms. You can construct your terminology hierarchy by adding your terms to these default root terms or by creating your own new dictionaries. If your organization is using any of the optional languages for ATG Search, you can create a dictionary for each language. Dictionaries are stored in XML format.
Note: If a dictionary is changed, all indexes that use that dictionary must be reindexed.
This chapter includes the following sections:
