On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Christine Taft wrote:
> 1. Is there any way to do adjaceny or phrase searching?
See the FAQ: <http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q1.9>
> 2. Do you have any sort of searching help file where someone could go to
> learn specifics of searching with the product?
Sure. In particular, I suggest the guides written by David Adams, but
there are others:
<http://www.htdig.org/contrib/guides.html>
> 3. Is truncation, wild card or word stem searching available? Adversely
> does the system do automatic stemming?
There are a variety of fuzzy matching algorithms available, including
prefix matching, substring matching, endings/stemming. Automatic stemming
is not done--I agree that this is usually a bad idea.
<http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#search_algorithm>
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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