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13.3 Layered Model of Semantic Search
e architecture of a search application is composed of components for indexing,
querying, searching and ranking, result presentation, and result navigation. In a
traditional search application, the query terms are matched against an index of all
terms in the documents. A result page with ranked links to all the retrieved docu-
ments is presented to a user. Some applications oer navigational features to help
a user specify a new and more precise query or drill down into the result set. All
these stages operate on terms that are, by denition, meaningless to the application
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