How to Use ThinkQuest Search
Query Keywords
Search string can be a sequence of keywords, each keyword being separated by
one or more blank spaces. All keywords will be treated as case-insensitive.
The operator All words/Any word is used to compose the
keyword for the search condition of your query.
For example, if you enter parallel systems and choose All words (by default), the query will search for all documents containing both parallel
and systems, provided that the matching option is selected as Match (by default).
Domain
Currently there are three databases available: Project Web Pages are WWW documents
of all teams on the TQD web site
(http://tqd.advanced.org/);
Project Overview includes original
proposals submitted by each participating team; ANS Web Pages are all
ThinkQuest HTML pages found on the ThinkQuest and Advanced Network & Services Site
(http://io.advanced.org/thinkquest/).
The search domain can be on either the Document or Title, or a List of all the documents can be viewed.
You can also limit the search to a particular ThinkQuest category, one of the five pre-defined
categories. When list option is selected the input keyword field and all other options, except
category and hits/page, are ignored.
When you choose to search in the ANS Web Pages, selection of any category will be ignored.
Document
Search text in the Document paragraph.
Title
Search only in the Title text.
List
List all documents in the database, one subset a page as determined by the Hits/Page option.
List
This allows you to find a particular proposal with a 4-digit team number.
Options
Word search options allow the keyword(s) you entered to be combined and extended.
Match/Not match
This option searches all documents that either Match or Not match
your keywords (and extensions, if any).
Keyword
The original keyword(s) you entered will be directly used in the search. They are not extended.
Forward Stemming
This option matches all the strings which has the keyword at it's beginning.
E.g.: implement will be stemmed to implement, implementation, implemented
Reverse Stemming
This option matches all the strings which has the keyword at it's end.
E.g: ement will be stemmed to element,implement,improvement,etc.
Fuzzy Match
This is designed to pick out typical data input errors such as mistypes
and phonetical misspellings. It will then perform the search on the 6
closest matched words. E.g.:Smith will be expanded to
Smit,Smiths,Smooth,etc.
Soundex Expansion
This option attemps to match words for which you do not know the correct spelling, words that have been entered into the database with incorrect spelling.
Hits/Page
The number of documents to be shown per page can be set using the Hits/Page option. The total number of documents that matched the query is also displayed. There will be Next
and previous to allow you to navigate the query results in pages.
New Search/Refined Search
If you searched in Document, you can Refine your previous search so that
the next search will be only in all the query results returned from your previous search.
By default, New search allows you to start a new query whose domain is the whole database.
Web Access Statistics
Give up-to-date database access information from this Web interface. It lists summery access data ordered by Date,
Web browser types and details all visits history in time, client host name and web browser.
This system is developed by Gang Cheng, Tom Pulikal and Piotr Sokilowski at NPAC.
Please send comment to gcheng@npac.syr.edu
or tapulika@npac.syr.edu.