Search Form

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 below, 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 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'