Use the form below to search for
documents on the IOLS web site containing specific words or combinations
of words.
The text search you perform 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 used
is available, along with examples, below.
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'
