Access control list (ACL)

Access Control List:
A data set which grants permissions, or access rights, to each user or group for a specific system objects, such as a directory or file.

FAST ESP, Autonomy IDOL or any other leading search product is able to utilize ACL information from the content repositories so that the same permissions apply to search results. This means that a user is only able to see the query results that he/she is entitled to view, based on his/her permissions towards the source content repository.

Entity Extraction

Entity Extraction:

Entity extraction means detecting, extracting, and normalizing entities, such as names of people or companies, from documents. This adds more structure to the data and enables navigation or relevancy enhancements based on specific entities.

In FAST ESP is shipped with predefined entity extractors and in Autnomy IDOL it is implemented using grammar file and processed through eduction module via indextasks.

Offensive Content Filter

Offensive Content Filter:
The Offensive Content Filter is a document analysis tool to filter content regarded
as offensive.

The offensive content filter is implemented as a separate document processor that can be added to an ESP
pipeline and In Autonomy IDOL can be implemented using eduction module.

How it works:
Document content is generally run through filters and compared to pre-defined dictionary. the terms can be added, replaced, removed or even entire document can be rejected.

The output of the filter is an overall score that provides an indication of the likeliness that a document is offensive.