User Guide

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Composing search expressions 597
#GetText_Search.RecordCount# <br>
</cfoutput>
Query Results --- Should be 5 rows <br>
<cfoutput query="Gettext">
#Identifier# <br>
</cfoutput>
Search Results -- should be 1 row <br>
<cfoutput query="GetText_Search">
#GetText_Search.TITLE# <br>
</cfoutput>
Evidence operators
Evidence operators let you specify a basic word search or an intelligent word search. A basic word
search finds documents that contain only the word or words specified in the query. An intelligent
word search expands the query terms to create an expanded word list so that the search returns
documents that contain variations of the query terms.
Documents retrieved using evidence operators are not ranked by relevance unless you use the
MANY modifier.
The following table describes the evidence operators:
Operator Description Example
STEM Expands the search to include the word that you
enter and its variations. The STEM operator is
automatically implied in any simple query.
<STEM>believe retrieves
matches such as “believe,”
“believing,” and “believer”.
WILDCARD Matches wildcard characters included in search
strings. Certain characters automatically indicate
a wildcard specification, such as apostrophe (*)
and question mark(?).
spam* retrieves matches such
as, spam, spammer, and
spamming.
WORD Performs a basic word search, selecting
documents that include one or more instances
of the specific word that you enter. The WORD
operator is automatically implied in any SIMPLE
query.
<WORD> logic retrieves logic,
but not variations such as
logical and logician.
THESAURUS Expands the search to include the word that you
enter and its synonyms. Collections do not have
a thesaurus by default; to use this feature you
must build one.
<THESAURUS> altitude
retrieves documents containing
synonyms of the word altitude,
such as height or elevation.