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Foil 28 The Database Search Engine

From Web Technology Overview CPS616 Basic Information Track for Computational Science -- Winter-Spring Semester 96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

Built on the indexed database
Basic functions/algorithms - keyword-based search
  • logical operators (and, or, not)
  • regular expressions (wildcard)
  • ranking of query results
  • case sensitive/insensitive
Advanced functions - concept-based search
  • summarize - generate a summary of a document using natural language processing techniques
  • similarity search - search similar documents to a particular document
  • phrase search
  • proximity search - specify words distance between keywords


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