Relevant terms are the most frequent terms available in the Term Discovery dimension. These terms are returned from the documents in the current result set. All of the terms in the set belong to the same Term Discovery dimension.

The Term Discovery dimension must have these two attributes:

Relevant terms are returned by the MDEX Engine as dimension value refinements. Programmatically, relevant terms are DimVal objects. Therefore, application developers can use the same Presentation API methods on relevant terms that can be used on normal dimension value refinements. For example, they can be returned sorted using any ranking behavior supported for dimension value refinements.