{
  "definition": "Retrieval based primarily on explicit lexical features such as terms, tokens, phrases, or other symbolic features shared between queries and indexed items.",
  "id": "lexical-retrieval",
  "kind": "Representation",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-12T21:39:00Z",
  "prefLabel": "Lexical Retrieval",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
  "relations": [
    {
      "target": "sparse-retrieval",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "target": "hybrid-retrieval",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "sparse-retrieval",
      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
  "representations": {
    "html": "https://id.searchplex.net/lexical-retrieval/",
    "json": "https://id.searchplex.net/lexical-retrieval.json",
    "jsonld": "https://id.searchplex.net/lexical-retrieval.jsonld"
  },
  "scheme": "https://id.searchplex.net/scheme/",
  "scopeNote": "Lexical retrieval commonly uses inverted indexes and term-based scoring, but it is broader than any individual scoring model such as BM25.",
  "status": "published",
  "uri": "https://id.searchplex.net/lexical-retrieval/"
}