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1. Wildcards

A search word can contain the wildcard characters * and ?. A ? in a word matches any single character, and a * matches any number of characters. The wildcard characters can be in any position in a word. For example:

appl* would match apple, application, etc.
*cipl* would match principle, participle, etc.
appl? would match apply and apple but not apples.
ap*ed would match applied, approved, etc

Use of the * wildcard character near the beginning of a word will slow searches somewhat.

2. Synonym and Related Words Search

Synonym searching finds synonyms of a word in a search request. For example, a search for fast would also find quickly. Related word searching looks for synonyms and other related words such as antonymns, holonyms and meronyms.

You can enable synonym searching for all words in a request by checking the Synonym Matching field or you can enable synonym searching selectively by adding the & character after certain words in a request. For example, fast&. (You do not need to check the Synonym Matching option in this case).

 

3. Fuzzy Search

Fuzzy searching will find a word even if it is misspelled. For example, a fuzzy search for apie will find apple and April (Fuzzy level 4). A search for appple will find apple (Fuzzy level 1).

Check Fuzzy Matching to enable fuzzy searching for all of the words in your search request. You can adjust the level of fuzziness from 1 to 5. The level indicates the number of differences that conceptEngine will ignore while searching (so the level of fuziness should be lesser than the length of the word). Too high a level of fuzziness may result in fewer answers especially if the search request term is not too long itself.You can also add fuzziness selectively using the % character. In this case,

1. The number of % characters you add determines the number of differences will ignore when searching for a word.
2. The position of the % characters determines how many letters at the start of the word have to match exactly. Examples:

ba%nana Word must begin with ba and have at most one difference between it and banana. b%%anana Word must begin with b and have at most two differences between it and banana.

5. Stemming

Stemming extends a search to cover grammatical variations on a word. For example, a search for fish would also find fishing . A search for applied would also find applying, applies and apply.

Check the Stemming box in the search form to enable stemming for all of the words in your search request. Stemming does not slow searches noticeably and is almost always helpful in making sure you find what you want. If you want to add stemming selectively, add a ~ at the end of words that you want stemmed in a search (You do not need to check the option in this case). For example, applied~.