{
  "altLabels": [
    "Keyword-Based Search",
    "Keyword Retrieval"
  ],
  "definition": "Search that retrieves results primarily by matching explicit query keywords, terms, or phrases against indexed text or metadata.",
  "id": "keyword-search",
  "kind": "GeneralConcept",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Term vocabulary and postings lists",
      "type": "canonicalSurvey",
      "url": "https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/term-vocabulary-and-postings-lists-1.html"
    }
  ],
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-12T22:23:29Z",
  "prefLabel": "Keyword Search",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "note": "Keyword search is a practitioner-facing search style focused on explicit keywords or phrases; lexical retrieval is the broader retrieval family based on lexical features.",
      "target": "lexical-retrieval",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Keyword search relies on explicit lexical evidence from the query; semantic search is meaning-oriented and may use dense, sparse, hybrid, expansion, or other retrieval methods.",
      "target": "semantic-search",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Keyword search describes a search style using explicit terms or phrases; sparse retrieval describes a representation property and includes both traditional lexical and learned sparse approaches.",
      "target": "sparse-retrieval",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "target": "hybrid-retrieval",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "lexical-retrieval",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "semantic-search",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "sparse-retrieval",
      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
  "representations": {
    "html": "https://id.searchplex.net/keyword-search/",
    "json": "https://id.searchplex.net/keyword-search.json",
    "jsonld": "https://id.searchplex.net/keyword-search.jsonld"
  },
  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Keyword search is often used interchangeably with lexical search in industry. In Searchplex ID, keyword search names the practitioner- and user-facing search style; lexical retrieval is the broader retrieval family based on lexical features.",
  "status": "published",
  "uri": "https://id.searchplex.net/keyword-search/"
}