Use this form to
search the WASP WEBSITE for documents 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 willbe shown, otherwise only the document's file name is
displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is
available, along with examples.
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'