Symposium Web Site Search Page

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Use the form below to search for documents in this web containing specific words orcombinations of words (e.g locating an author's paper). The text search engine willdisplay a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each listitem 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 expressionscontaining 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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