content

Raw data for indexing, such as html files, Word documents, or repositories.

content label

The content label identifies the purpose of a content set, such as a catalog or a collection of articles. If your search project includes different types of content that you want to search individually, you can use content labels to differentiate the content types.

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

facet set

Allows users to search within an existing result set.

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 Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search to certain types of user queries.

Search Administration

The Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search user interface, including both project administration and the Workbench.

Management Console

search engine

Part of Oracle ATG Web Commerce 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.

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.

structured data

Content that adheres to a well-defined structure, typically repository data that has been exported to XHTML.

target type

Identifies the general purpose of the search project. If you are using ATG Content Administration, the target types should correspond to your ATG Content Administration targets.

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.

type-ahead

Oracle ATG Web Commerce Search feature that allows you to provide a list of terms that can be used in your UI to auto-complete search terms as they are entered.

unstructured data

Content that has no governing structure, such as that typically found in file systems, which might include a variety of document formats and information types.

Workbench

Part of the user interface where users create and edit customization data.

Management Console (partial)