| PHRASE |
Selects documents that contain the specified phrase. |
Example 1: <PHRASE> (by, the, lower, house, of,
Parliament)
Example 2: "by the lower house of
Parliament"
Returns documents that contain the phrase "by the lower house of Parliament." |
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| NEAR/"X" |
Selects documents that contain two or more words within N number of words of each other. N is optional. |
Example: apple <NEAR/1>
computer
Returns documents that contain the phrases "apple computer" or "computer apple." |
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| AND |
Selects documents that contain all of the search words specified. |
Example: computers <AND>
laptops
Returns only documents that contain the phrases "computers" and "laptops". |
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| OR |
Selects documents that include at least one of the search elements specified. |
Example: computers <OR>
laptops
Returns documents that contain either "computers" or "laptops," or both "computers" and "laptops," but does not necessarily rank documents that contain both terms higher. |
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| WILDCARD |
Matches wildcard characters included in the search string. |
Example 1:
car*
Returns documents that include words such as "cars," "carriage" and
"cartridge."
Example 2: car?
Returns documents that include words such as "cars," "card," but not "carriage" and "cartridge." |
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| SOUNDEX |
Expands the search to include the specified word and one or more words that sound like, or whose letter pattern is similar to, the word. |
Example: <SOUNDEX>
sale
Returns documents that include words such as "sell," "seal," "shell" and "scale." |
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| THESAURUS |
Expands the search to
include the word entered plus similar words. |
Example: <THESAURUS>
altitude
Returns documents that include words such as "height" and
"elevation."
This feature requires manual entry of relevant synonyms chosen by the customer. ActivePaper Search ServerTM provides a utility that allows to create and maintain a customer's synonym
dictionary. |
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| STEM |
Expands the search to include the word entered plus its linguistic variations. |
Example: <STEM>
project
Returns documents that include words such as "films," "filmed" and
"filming."
ActivePaper Search ServerTM uses this function by default. In order to override it, the <WORD> function can be used. |
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| WORD |
Performs a basic word search, selecting documents that contain one or more occurrence of the word. |
Example: <WORD>
film
Will not match linguistic variations such as "films," "filmed" and "filming." |
