Glossary

Search-Enabled Business Intelligence Terminology

Chiliad

A group of 1,000. The name Chiliad symbolizes the ability to access thousands of distributed information sources simultaneously.

Concept Extraction

The ability to mine concepts from data using linguistic analysis

Concept and Entity Extraction

A search function that identifies significant vocabulary items (such as people, places, or products) in text documents and produces a list of those items.

Data

Factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation

Data Fusion

A pull of information from multiple on a specific subject into a specific report

Data integrity

A method of ensuring information has not been altered by unauthorized or unknown means.

DMS

Document Management System

Data protection

The implementation of administrative, technical or physical measures to guard against the unauthorized access to data (definition developed by ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions).

Enterprise Search

The term most often used to descript search within an organization; although in Chiliad’s case it extends past the organization as well. This is in contrast to the other two main type of horizontal search environment: web search and desktop search.

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS)

A U.S. government standard published by the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST).

Federated Search

A search capability that enables searches across multiple search services and returns a consolidated list of search results.

Geo-enabled search

The ability to sort and rank documents based on their geographical distance from a given source position.

Global Knowledge Fusion

The ability to achieve real-time fusion of content from distributed sources, enabling organizations to “connect the dots into actionable intelligence” Chiliad’s proprietary fusion method ensures that a particular document would be ranked identically regardless of which of the distributed systems it came from. This fusion is performed very efficiently, in real time, with minimal network activity, and without sending a single document or record across the network.

Information

Knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction

Intelligence

The ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria

Knowledge

The fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association

Linguistic search

A search type that browses, retrieves, and indexes a document with terms that are reduced to their base form (for example, so that mice is indexed as mouse) or expanded with their base form (as with compound words).

Metadata

Data that provides information about other data

Metasearch

A metasearch system takes a single query or request from a user and sends it to multiple search engines or systems for processing then merges the results for presentation to the user.

National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

A division of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce that publishes open, interoperability standards called Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS).

Ontology

A formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts; it is used to explain or reason about the properties of that domain, and may be used to help define the domain.

Precision and Recall

Precision is the ability to accurately retrieve results. Recall in search terms is the ability to retrieve as many results as possible that match the search or query.

Query

To ask; in search terms this is the combination of words used for searching

Queries per second (QPS)

The number of queries that the search platform will process in one second.

Ranking

A method of arranging results according to their relevancy

Relevance or Relevance Ranking

The ability (as of an information retrieval system) to retrieve material that satisfies the needs of the user, or the measure of how well the search answers the question.

Information Risk management

Performance of activities to mitigate the chance of adverse events related to a company’s information assets. Activities include risk identification, assessment, prioritization and control.

Scalability

Capable of being scaled. Scalability indicated the capability of a system to be easily expanded or to increase throughput in a seamless manner.

Search-enabled Business Intelligence

The combination of enterprise search with business intelligence capabilities.

Situational Awareness (SA)

Situation awareness (SA) involves being aware of what is happening around you to understand how information, events, and your own actions will impact your goals and objectives, both now and in the near future. Lacking SA or having inadequate SA has been identified as one of the primary factors in accidents attributed to human error.

Taxonomy

A classification of objects into groups based on similarities. In enterprise search, a taxonomy organizes data into categories and subcategories.