Answer Server 25.4
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# Glossary

A
- ACI (Autonomy Content Infrastructure)
  A technology layer that automates operations on unstructured information for cross-enterprise applications. ACI enables an automated and compatible business-to-business, peer-to-peer infrastructure. The ACI allows enterprise applications to understand and process content that exists in unstructured formats, such as email, Web pages, Microsoft Office documents, and IBM Notes.
- ACI Server
  A server component that runs on the Autonomy Content Infrastructure (ACI).
- action
  A request sent to an ACI server.
- Agentstore
  A specialized configuration of the Content component. In an Answer Bank system, the Agentstore stores the reference questions, question equivalence classes, and answers.
- answer
  The response that Answer Server returns. An answer provides a precise and concise response to a reference question. Answers are included as part of a question equivalence class.
- answer bank
  An Answer Server system that retrieves answers from a store of reference questions and associated answers, such as an FAQ. The Answer Bank uses a specially configured Agentstore component to store the questions and answers.
- answer system
  A configured component of Answer Server that returns answers to questions. Systems include Answer Banks and Fact Banks. An Answer Server can have multiple systems of each type, and can retrieve answers from each configured system.
C
- Content component
  The Knowledge Discovery component that manages the data index and performs most of the search and retrieval operations from the index.
E
- entity
  An object, place, or person. In a Fact Bank system, the entity is the item that the fact is about, or that the question wants to know about. For example, in the question "What is the population of the USA", USA is the entity.
F
- fact bank
  An Answer Server system that retrieves simple factual answers. The Fact Bank uses Named Entity Recognition to parse questions, and a Content component as a fact store.
- fact store
  The component of a fact bank that stores the factual information for retrieval. The fact store is a specially configured Content component.
K
- Knowledge Discovery
  A group of products and components that integrate unstructured, semi-structured and structured information from multiple repositories through an understanding of the content. It delivers a real-time environment in which operations across applications and content are automated.
L
- License Server
  License Server enables you to license and run multiple Knowledge Discovery solutions. You must have a License Server on a machine with a known, static IP address.
P
- property
  The information associated with a particular entity. In a Fact Bank system, the property is the information that the fact provides, or that the question wants to know about. For example, in the question "What is the population of the USA", population is the property.
Q
- qualifier
  A term or item that modifies the property in a question. This might be a date, or an adjective that affects the meaning of a question. For example, in the question "What was the population of the USA in 1850", 1850 is a qualifier to the population property.
- question equivalence class
  A set of equivalent questions, which all resolve to a single reference question.
- question equivalence rule
  A rule that maps questions to a reference question (and therefore to a question equivalence class).
- question parser
  The component of a Fact Bank system that parses the incoming questions to extract entities, properties, and qualifiers. Answer Server has an embedded Named Entity Recognition module to perform question parsing.
- question set
  The set of questions that can reasonably be included in the Answer Bank, regardless of whether they currently have answers.
R
- reference question
  The best question that a stored Answer answers. In a question equivalence class, all the equivalent questions map to the reference question.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Answer Server 25.4

Topic Title: Glossary