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Word LookUp
You are supplied with some options to look for words in the ISYS:web index,
that start with or sound like the text you have entered.
To find a specific word in the Word LookUp:
1. Type the word or part of a word you want to look up in the
text box provided.e.g. tax
2. Click the "Starts with" button.
3. You can then select a word in the list box. The numbers show
how many times each word appears in the whole website.
4. Click the "Add to query" box to add the word to the
current query box.
Sounds Like
To find a word that sounds similar to the word you type:
1. Type the word or part of a word you want to look up in the text box provided.
e.g. aterny
2. Click the "Sounds Like" button
3. You can then select a word in the list box. The numbers show
how many times each word appears in the whole website.
4. Click the "Add to query" box to add the word to the current query box.
Precedence of operators
ISYS:web will assume a precedence, that is, an order for handling multiple operators in
a complex query. The default precedence is:
- Phrases
- //, TO, BEFORE, AFTER
- \\
- ..., .., AND, OR, NOT
Where a search expression, or portion of an expression, contains several operators of
the same precedence, ISYS:web will process from left to right.
For example:
bonus AND manager OR supervisor
will be interpreted as find all documents that contain both bonus and manager OR those which contain supervisor.
To find documents that contain bonus and manager, OR supervisor, the query could
be entered as:
manager OR supervisor AND bonus
Using Parentheses in Queries
When you enter in the current query box,
you can control the order of precedence by using parentheses "(
)". Just as we can use intonation
in speech to clearly express a sentence that could be misinterpreted, we use
parentheses to clearly express a query, overriding the ISYS:web defaults where
necessary.
For example, the query:
car allowance // manager OR salesman
is interpreted using the default precedence as follows:
((car allowance) // manager) OR salesman
since the phrase car allowance has highest precedence, and the // or Near By operator
has higher precedence than the OR operator.
To locate those documents containing the phrase car allowance in the same
paragraph as either manager or salesman, use:
car allowance // (manager OR salesman)
Parentheses may be used anywhere sensible within a query. Examples include:
(manager OR supervisor) // bonus
the (quick OR slow) brown (fox OR kangaroo)
(manage* // (bonus OR reward) // paid) AND excess*
pet hates ... (alligator OR crocodile)
Sorting Results
On your query page you have the option to change the way the document
list is sorted. The default is
Number of Hits
Select the sort method by choosing the list box for the
desired method followed by the "Search" button.
You have all the following options:
Number of hits
Lists documents by the number of hits.
The documents with the greatest number of hits will appear first.
Relevancy
Lists documents by the density of hits (number of hits to document size ratio).
File name
Lists documents alphabetically by file name. Path names are
not sorted.
Title
Lists documents according to their title, in alphabetical order. If no title is available, a document's URL is used instead.
