Glossary
A B C C of the Index D E F F of the Index G H H of the Index I I of the Index J K K of the Index L M M of the Index O O of the Index P P of the Index Q R R of the Index S S of the Index T T of the Index U U of the Index V V of the Index W W of the Index X Y Z
C
Common Words
Words that are ignored during searching because they occur frequently in most items.
F
Field
An attribute of an item. Item fields may include the decision number, FCA number, CUB number, appellant, respondant, judge, date, act, CORUM and location.
Full-text Searching
The ability to search through the complete text of items for terms contained in your search criteria (instead of only search pre-defined keywords or abstracts). You specify search criteria using words Workds, phrases, or selected text, and the search engine provides a list of items sorted by how closely they match your request.
H
Header
The row of information that describes each column in a list.
I
Information Source
A repository of searchable items displayed in a folder system in the search engine Knowledge map. CUBs, FCA, Federal Court, Supreme Court, Benefit Entitlement - Significant Decisions and Office of the Umpire - Significant Decisions are examples of information sources.
Marked information source folders display like this 
, and marked information source folders with subfolders display like this 
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A sophisticated Fulcrum searching feature that enables the user to retrieve items based on the similarity of their content to selected text. See also Similarity Searching.
Any searchable text object, including individual CUBs, Federal Court decisions and Supreme Court decisions.
K
Knowledge Map
The search engine Customization Manager window where you select searchable information sources and their folders for searching.
M
Multiple-Character Wildcard
Represents any sequence of characters in a search term. The multiple-character wildcard (*) expands the search to include all words that share similar but not identical letter patterns (for example, c*t finds cat and cot). Wildcards can be used when searching for words or phrases.
O
Operators
Used in a search to combine search criteria. The valid operators are: the ampersand (&), the vertical bar (|), and the caret (^) (for combining search terms). Unless you use them as part of a phrase Pharse, the search engine ignores the words AND, NOT, and OR and other words that occur so often in typical writing that they provide no search value to the search engine or the user.
The search terms you can combine in your search criteria include: individual words, terms with wildcard characters, phrases, and search terms in proximity.
P
Phrase
A sequence of one or more search terms and punctuation separated by white-space characters. Enclose phrases in double-quotation marks (" ") to find the text in a specific order.
The distance between one search term and another, measured in the number of displayable characters.
R
Result List
The list of retrieved items displayed after a successful search.
S
Score
The score bar at the left of each row in the Result List indicates how closely that item matches the search criteria. The wider the score bar, the more relevant it is to the search criteria.
Used in the search engine to select information sources.
The information on which a search is based.
The portion of the Knowledge Map that is selected for searching.
The list of items returned by a search. The search results are displayed in the Result List in the lower portion of the search engine window.
A sequence of one or more adjacent letters or numbers, and including specific punctuation characters. The simplest case of a search term is a single word. When searching specific words or phrases, you enter the search terms in the search engine's I Want To Search For box.
Words that match your search criteria are displayed in a different color, making them easier to spot in the search results. Search term highlighting is used in Summary view, and is also available when you are viewing the item in your Web browser.
A search feature that provides the search engine with the means to retrieve and score items that contain word variants of a selected item or to selected text.
Represents any single character in a search term. The single-character wildcard (?) expands the search to include all words that contain the same sequence of characters when interspersed with other text (for example, c*t finds cat and cot). Wildcards can be used in searching words and phrases.
Retrieves items containing specific search terms that you specify. Structured searching is more precise than similarity searching and is useful when you are familiar with the content of the items or when you're looking for items containing specific information. Also called word and phrase searching.
T
See Search Term and Word
U
Uniform Resource Locator. The address where information is stored on the Internet or on an Intranet. The URL includes the access method, the name of the server where the information is stored, the file's directory path, and its file name.
V
Displays above the text of items you view or open from the Result List. The Viewer toolbar displays
the following controls:
- The Previous Term and Next Term buttons, which you can use to move between highlighted search terms.
- The Next Item buttons, which you can use move to the next item in the Result List without returning to the search engine.
- The Close link, used for closing the Viewer.
W
A location on the World Wide Web. You open a Web site by entering its URL Universal Resource Locator (URL) address in your Web browser's address bar.
A wildcard represents one or more characters in a search term. In the search engine, the two valid wildcards are the question mark (?), which matches any single character, and the asterisk (*), which matches any number of characters within a search term.
The smallest unit of text that can be searched for separately. The search engine breaks text into words based on pre-defined rules. See also Search Term.