| 1 | Queryer is a standalone program enabling search and retrieval of documents
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| 2 | in an mgpp collection. Even when using greenstone, it is useful for testing
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| 3 | your collections.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | Queryer can be run like
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| 6 |
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| 7 | Queryer -f <index files> -t <text files>
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| 8 |
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| 9 | index and text files is the path to these files down to the collection name.
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| 10 | eg
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| 11 | if your text files are demo/index/text/demo.t, demo/index/text/demo.ti etc,
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| 12 | then the text path is demo/index/text/demo
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| 13 | similary for the index files.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | Commands available in the Queryer are:
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| 16 |
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| 17 | .q quit
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| 18 | .h print the help message
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| 19 | .i change the search level (enter the new level at the prompt)
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| 20 | .l change the result level ( "" "" )
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| 21 | .b full text browse (enter a word or fragment at the prompt)
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| 22 | .r0/.r1 ranking off/on
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| 23 | .t0/.t1 query type some/all
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| 24 | .c0/.c1 casefolding off/on
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| 25 | .s0/.s1 stemming off/on
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| 26 | .o0/.o1 short output off/on
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| 27 |
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| 28 | .p print a document (enter the docnum at the prompt)
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| 29 | otherwise just enter a query
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| 30 |
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| 31 |
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| 32 | The current query syntax involves the following:
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| 33 |
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| 34 | boolean operators: & AND | OR ! NOT, with () for precedence
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| 35 |
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| 36 | term modifiers: #icus /x - this is stemming, casefolding and weighting like
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| 37 | in gsdl
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| 38 |
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| 39 | #i = case insensitive, #c = case sensitive
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| 40 | #u = unstemmed, #s = stemmed
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| 41 | /x = term weight (default = 1).
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| 42 |
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| 43 | eg computer#is/10 is computer, stemmed and casefolded, with a weight of 10
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| 44 | compared to other terms in the same query
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| 45 |
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| 46 | Proximity searching: NEARx
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| 47 | this is used to specify the maximum distance apart two words must be to match
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| 48 | eg dog NEAR4 cat - cat must be within 4 words either side of dog.
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| 49 | NEAR by itself defaults to 20(??).
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| 50 |
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| 51 | fielded searching: [ terms]:Field
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| 52 |
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| 53 | eg [Witten]:Creator
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| 54 | [Witten]:CR
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| 55 |
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| 56 | the field names need to be the names of the metadata elements in your
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| 57 | collection. If the collection was built with greenstone, these names are the
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| 58 | two letter codes found in the build.cfg file.
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| 59 |
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| 60 | Multiple terms inside the [] are ANDed together.
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| 61 |
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| 62 | Different fields can be combined using normal boolean stuff, eg
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| 63 |
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| 64 | [Witten]:CR & [Gigabytes]:TI
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| 65 |
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| 66 | Term modifiers can be included inside the [].
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| 67 |
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