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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:

By typing information retrieval or typing information or retrieval you would find documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

By typing information and retrieval you would find documents containing both information' and 'retrieval'

By typing information not retrieval you would find documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

By typing (information not retrieval) and WAIS you would find documents containing
'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

By typing web* you would find documents containing words starting with 'web'

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