Glossary

Ecosystem Terms

Term	Definition
Snippet	Short news report, processed post, or extraction from documents, such as articles, audio, or video files.
Snippet ID	A unique identifier assigned to each Snippet for tracking and referencing.
Document	Documents are either a post, article, podcast, or video file. They can contain multiple reports with independent information depending on the type of document. For example, large documents, like articles, podcasts, and videos, may contain multiple reports, while a post on social media is often a single report.
Document URL	URL links to the document where the snippet was originally generated.
Date/Time	Timestamp for when the report was published. The API is in UTC and Platform uses your desktop’s local browser time.
Relevancy	Probability, or confidence score, indicating the contextual relevance of a snippet to sports betting or market-changing events.
Entity	Key people, places, or things. For example, a player or team.
News Type	Predicted probability that a report is related to any of our pre-defined types of news, including: Injury, Lineup, Practice, Suspension, Trade, Contract, Draft, Hiring, Firing, Performance, Other
Primary News Type 1	The news type with the highest probability.
Primary News Type 2	The news type with the second highest probability.
Source	The place origin of where document was published.
Source Type	Types of documents, such as social media, articles, podcast, or video.
Extracted URL	URL extracted from a snippet, often a link to a complementary article, press conference, or player interview.
Author	The person that wrote and published the document, such as an article. For example, the ‘By line’ of an article.
Reporter	The person cited for publishing the information contained in a snippet. For example, Pierre LeBrun, NHL Insider
Reporter Type	Classification of reporters based on their type of coverage, either National or Local. National reporters cover the entire league, while local reporters often cover a single team.
Reporter Company	The company that the reporter primarily works for, such as The Athletic or Washington Post.
Primary Team	The team that the reporter has mentioned most often in their reports.
Parent ID	A field in the snippet object that references the snippet_id of an earlier, related snippet. When null, indicates the snippet is an original source or contains unique information.
Snippet Linking	The process of identifying relationships between snippets, specifically determining if a new snippet contains the same core information as a previously ingested snippet.

Technical Terms

Term	Definition
Semantic Search	Search methodology that understands the contextual meaning of queries rather than simple keyword matching, allowing for more natural language searching and finding conceptually similar content even when exact terms differ.
Bi-Encoder	A neural network architecture used in our snippet linking process that efficiently computes semantic similarity between text snippets to quickly retrieve potential matching candidates.
Cross-Encoder	A neural network architecture used in our snippet linking process that performs detailed comparison between pairs of snippets to determine if they contain the same core information, providing high-precision matching.