Use the form above to search for
documents in this website containing specific words or combinations of
words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching
documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link
to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown,
otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief
explanation of the query language is
available, along with examples.
The text search engine allows queries
to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the
keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:
- information
retrieval
- finds documents containing
'information' or 'retrieval'
- information or
retrieval
- same as above
- information and
retrieval
- finds documents containing both
'information' and 'retrieval'
- information not
retrieval
- finds documents containing
'information' but not 'retrieval'
- (information not
retrieval) and WAIS
- finds documents containing
'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'
- web*
- finds documents containing words
starting with 'web'
