Knowledge Discovery 26.1
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# Basic Queries

Basic search (also referred to as conceptual search) includes keyword and natural language searches, which allow you to specify terms that you want to find in your document set. The Content component applies some processing to the search terms so that it can find related terms (for example, plurals, and other forms of a verb). See Languages.

In a basic query, you provide keywords or sentences, and Content retrieves the documents that match it. These queries are the easiest type of search for end users, because they do not require any special syntax or training.

Content performs linguistic processing for basic queries, which allows it to match concepts as well as specific keywords.

## Basic Query Process

You send basic queries to Content in the Text parameter of the `Query` action. Content then:

- removes the stop words from the query text.

- stems each word to a linguistic root.

- matches the text against the index fields of the documents it contains.

- returns documents that contain any or all of your search terms, in any matching form.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery 26.1

Topic Title: Basic Queries