Use the form below to search for documents in this Web site 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.
Query Language
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'
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