Use the form below to search for documents in this web containing specific words or combinations of words. 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:

If we are considering two keywords, "information" and "retrieval", the the following types of searches can be performed:

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', where "*" is a wildcard.

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