| TOPIC CENTERS | Working Definition | Keywords & Scope Notes |
| Classification & Taxonomies | Systems, methods, and solutions for providing context to unstructured information collections so that search can be made more precise. Services and systems that support the building of taxonomies. Solutions that apply taxonomies automatically to a collection of information in order to support search, discovery, and retrieval. | Classification; Taxonomy; Taxonomies . . . |
| Content Management & Search Technology | CM systems/solutions/methods that include search as a feature/functionality. Search features and modules that enhance existing systems or platforms, including other search platforms. Search technologies designed to handle specific content types. Search technology to support searching multiple content types simultaneously. Also includes search technology, in general. | Content Management; CM Solutions with integrated search; CM systems for Web content; Search integration; Search & Retrieval Platform; CM & search in practice; e-mail search; graphics search; Federated search; Enterprise Search; Search tool; Site Search; Desktop Search, Metasearch . . . |
| Entity Extraction & Other Automatic Processes | Means, methods, providers of tools for automatically extracting data from structured or unstructured content collections. Methods, tools, and solutions for automatically analyzing and structuring content collections for better search. Automatic means of filtering or extracting particular content elements for display. Tools for automatically filtering results. Other topics covered include: text- and data-mining. | Text mining; Entity extraction; Key entities; Automatic indexing; Automatic tagging; Automatic classification; Phrase extraction; Overlap identification; Overlap detection; Cross tabulation Filtering (unstructured content collections); Data extraction; Data mining; Any other technique for creating structure from unstructured data; RDB Tables (extraction to relational databases] Text import; Extraction runs; Fact extraction (see also Taxonomy); Categorization; Automatic categorization; Analytics (see Analytics); OCR (Optical Character Recognition); Spidering . . . |
| Faceted Navigation & Search | Methods, tools and solutions for creating or facilitating search by using bits and pieces of information (facets) that together will provide the result. Methods, tools and solutions that allow or support the assignment of multiple classifications (facets) to an object in order to allow searching and browsing by facet. Category also includes: Products that include faceted search and navigation capabilities. | Facet-level ; Facet-boosting; Facet creation; Facet launching; Dynamic categorization; Search by facet . . . |
| Project and System Management | Issues, tools, techniques, methods and solutions for helping IT managers manage processes and projects related to search. Applications and systems that include features or functionalities for improving search system performance in IT shops. Also includes: Key management issues, such as security, digital rights management, reporting, diagnostics; and Key management challenges, such as e-mail management, dealing with multiple languages or languages other than English; graphic and other media objects; etc. Vendors that provide solutions that address key management issues and challenges. Also includes articles that are written from an IT manager's point of view (discussing management issues). | Examples of successful implementations; Case Studies on IA; DRM (Digital Rights Management); ROI (Return on Investment); Problem resolution; Causes and solutions; Reporting capabilities; System performance issue identification; Service management software; Operational diagnostics; Specific types of content management, e.g., e-mail; Security monitoring; Security systems; Regulatory compliance. . . |
| Results Display & Visualization | Methods, tools, techniques and solutions for rendering the display of search results. Examples of systems or solutions that perform various types of results displays. Result displays that include visualization or other techniques to group, arrange, rank, or present answers in the form of document references and/or data displays that together attempt to answer the user's question. Also includes: Other visualization techniques that apply to CM and search applications. | Results Visualization; Results in graphic or tabular form (charts); Disambiguation of search results prior to display; KWIC-term highlighting (highlighting keywords in context in answer sets, but not KWIC indexing); Filtering (of answers prior to display, but not filtering for taxonomy building); Results ranking; Results clustering; Results categorization; User-defined answer displays. . . |
| Search Analytics | Systems, solutions, applications and methods that support the generation of metrics to help manage or improve search results. Systems, solutions, applications that support measurement of the search algorithms, metadata, taxonomy, and functions to determine which tools are returning accurate results. Other applications or solutions that supply metrics or analytics to support decision-making in building effective search systems. | Analysis (unstructured data); Content analysis; Metrics for analytics; Search analytics; Usage analytics; Text analytics; Web analytics; Sentiment analysis; Speech analytics; Online analytical processing; Inline analytics . . . |
| Systems & Information Architecture | Systems that perform one or more of the functions required to support information storage, search & discovery, and use. Methods, means and techniques for constructing systems in such a way that they are useable by operators. Methods, means, or methods to make search and navigation more usable to end-users. News and views about "Information Architecture" as a professional discipline (community of practice that promotes good design for usability). News about applications that include usability features, functionalities, or capabilities or that emphasize usability benefits | Architectural patterns; HTML XML, etc.; User Interface; Web Services (layer); UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture); Middle ware; Standards (WC3, Z-3950) Standards-compliant applications; SOAP; Applications that connect to other applications. Use of search/user studies; Full systems that provide a variety of features/functionalities in other subject categories . . . |
| Tagging & Metadata | Methods, applications, systems and means of applying metadata tags to items in a repository of structured or unstructured information in order to facilitate their retrieval from a search. General articles about metadata, "data that is used to describe other data." Systems or solutions that feature metadata capture or search capabilities and features. Tagging systems including user tagging. | Tagging; Metadata; Meta-tags; Systems that search the metadata associated with unstructured collections; User tagging; Management of metadata; Metadata schema, look-up tables, indexes, view-and-column definitions and data terms . . . |
| Tools for Discovery | Describes methods, applications and techniques for helping users discover information without searching for it themselves. Also includes methods, means, or solutions for deriving a search query or otherwise displaying results from the context of something the user is doing or has done. Category also includes: content collections that include a search and discovery component—usually related to a particular type of content type (patents, document collections, financial data, scientific information, etc.) | RSS; Syndication; Bots and intelligent agents; Other techniques that automatically deliver search results to the user's workspace. Self-contained content collections with search features built-in. Automatic delivery of search results; Contextual Search . . . |
