The Term Indexer node creates a searchable Index Object from a selected string column of an input data table.
The node abstracts internal engine complexity and exposes two generalized index strategies:

• Generic - Identity
• Generic - Term

These strategies optimize indexing behavior depending on the nature of the indexed values (structured identifiers vs. natural terms).
The generated index can be passed to downstream nodes, such as the Term Index Matcher, to quickly retrieve similar values within large datasets. By storing the indexed values in a structured format, the node enables fast and scalable similarity lookups, even in the presence of spelling variations, typos, or inconsistent text data.

Options

Select Column to Index

Selects the string column from the input table that will be used to build the index. Only string-convertible columns are available.

Index Type

Specifies the indexing strategy used to construct the searchable index. Available Options
Generic - Ident
Optimized for identity-like or structured values such as:

• IDs
• Codes
• Reference numbers
• Single structured tokens

Designed for exact or near-exact matching scenarios where tolerance is limited and precision is critical.
Generic - Term
Optimized for natural-language-like terms such as:

• Names
• Brands
• Product titles
• Single-word entities

Provides more tolerant matching behavior for handling typos, spelling variations, and inconsistencies.

Representation of Indexed Strings

Defines how indexed values are represented in downstream results (e.g., in Term Index Matcher).
Indexing internally applies normalization to improve match precision. This option determines which representation is exposed in match outputs.
This option determines whether the matched index values in the results are displayed as their transformed or original representations.
Possible values:

• Original
  Returns values exactly as they appear in the input column.
• Normalized
  Returns the internally transformed representation used for indexing.

Users may apply the Character Mapper node upstream to override default normalization behavior.

Aliases

Select the alias set you want to apply to the index.
An Alias Object (created by the Alias Creator node) enables deterministic synonym expansion or canonicalization during indexing.
When an alias set is applied:

• Terms may be expanded or rewritten according to alias rules
• Penalty values influence downstream similarity scoring
• Deterministic synonym handling improves recall while preserving explainability

If no alias set is selected, indexing proceeds without synonym expansion.

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Workflows

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