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Glossary

Quick reference definitions for the main terms used throughout the IntQuest documentation.

Overview

This page explains common IntQuest words in plain language.

Terms

  • Active model: The model the system is using right now for one analysis task.
  • Attribute: A label attached to an entity, such as PERSON or COMPANY.
  • Back button: A button that returns you to the previous page.
  • Confidence: A score that shows how sure the system was about a topic, entity, relation, or cluster result.
  • Coreference cluster: A group of mentions that point to the same real-world thing, such as a full name, a shorter name, and a pronoun.
  • Custom range: A fixed date range set with the From and To fields. It stays the same for the browser session.
  • Default attribute: An attribute whose entities IntQuest shows when no single attribute is selected in File View.
  • Default model: A protected built-in model that comes with the system.
  • Entity: A named item found in a document, such as a person, company, place, or other labeled text.
  • Evidence chain: The four AI services that process each document in order: topic detection, entity recognition, coreference, and relation extraction.
  • Exact entity: A strict entity match, not a loose or partial one.
  • File View: The full review screen for one document.
  • Modify Settings: The permission that unlocks Files, uploads, and the Process, AI, Models, and Topics administration sections.
  • Object: The right side of a relation.
  • Parsing method: How IntQuest extracts text from an imported file: PDFtoText, Tika, or PDF OCR.
  • Plain-text pattern: A simple text search pattern such as fraud, fraud*, or *bank.
  • Processed date: The date and time when IntQuest finished processing a file.
  • Raw data: The stored JSON record of a document, downloaded with Download document JSON in Search. Most users don’t need it.
  • Relation: A link between two entities, such as one person working at one company.
  • Rolling window: The Last 6 hours or Last 24 hours time window, which always ends at the current time.
  • Saved filter: A saved search you can reopen later without typing it again.
  • Seed words: The words that topic detection uses for one topic in one language.
  • Subject: The left side of a relation.
  • Sync: For models, the state where the model loaded in the AI service matches the model marked active. For process settings, the moment the processing service reads the saved values.
  • Text Drilldown: A page that shows every document where one text pattern appears.
  • Theme: The dark or light appearance of IntQuest, changed with the switch in the navigation bar.
  • Topic: A broad subject label for a document.
  • Users / Groups: The permission that unlocks the Users and Groups administration sections.