Term | Definition | Replaces prior term |
|---|---|---|
content | Raw data for indexing, such as html files, Word documents, or ATG repositories. | |
content set | Bundles content into a single organizational unit that can be indexed as one. | document repositories/sets |
customizations | Blanket term for topic sets, query rules, dictionaries, facet sets, languages, parsing options, query rules, and preferred answers. | |
deploying | The action of moving indexes and/or customization data from a staging to a production environment | |
dictionary | Contains definitions of special words and the relationships between them. Users can add terms to improve the search responses. | |
expansion | A synonym for a term, either defined in a custom dictionary or in the default language files | |
index | The end result of indexing content, and what is used to answer queries submitted by end-users. | IdeaMap |
indexing environment | Search environment that indexes content. | indexing server |
partition | An index is divided into one or more Logical Partitions, depending on the number of Content Sets. Each Logical Partition is composed of one or more Physical Partitions, depending on the size of the content. | |
learning files | Rules that automatically apply topics to a content collection. | |
preferred answer | Custom response to frequently-asked end-user questions. Can be linked to source text within content collections. | |
project | Projects represent the top-level container for managing and indexing content. The project associates customization data and search environments with an index. | Job script (also included actions, which are now part of synchronization) |
query rules | Link actions in ATG Search to certain types of user queries. | |
facet set | Allows users to search within an existing result set. | |
Search Administration | The ATG Search user interface, including both project administration and the workbench. | Management Console |
search engine | Part of ATG Search that creates the index, receives an end-user query and returns the results of the search. | Answer Server |
search environment | A combination of a single index and one or more machines and search engines used for indexing or searching. indexing environment – Dedicated environment indexing content. staging environment – Largely used for demonstration and evaluation purposes. A web site can be pointed to a staging Search Environment for demo or proof-of-concept purposes, but staging sites are not intended for heavy load. production environment – Used to run end-user facing search services under heavy load. These typically include a large number of multi-CPU machines to support high degrees of fault-tolerance and parallelism. Workbench – Dedicated environment for performing the indexing of content for eventual movement to production or staging servers. | Content clusters, also called clusters |
stem | In linguistics, the stem is the part of a word that is common to all its inflected variants. For example, the stem of banking, banker, and banks is bank. | |
topic set | A hierarchy of topics. | topic taxonomy |
term | Individual entry within a dictionary. | |
term weight set/stop words | A set of term/weight pairs, in which the weight describes the amount of influence a term has in a search. | |
topics | User-defined classification system that can be applied to indexes, allowing end-users to refine their search by finding related information. | |
Workbench | Part of the user interface where users create and edit customization data. | Management Console (partial) |
