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Although Socrates uses automatic scoring for the search terms (taking into account their indicativeness), nothing can replace the intelligent analyst that might want to steer the investigation in a specific direction. This can be done by setting a special weight to a term.
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Each change to the weights affects the order of the results. This can be a useful way to “collect” results which best answer several different aspects of the investigation: boost some terms, check top results - label/like them, then boost some other terms instead, check top results, etc. All annotated documents can later be found under the Displayed Results facet.