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.
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'