Definition
- Relevance searching enables the
search of controlled indexes of fields.
- It searches for words and/or
phrases plus:
- Their variants.
- Synonymous or related terms
and/or phrases.
- Consequently, you increase your
recall, but you may lose some degree of precision.
- You can also use
Booleans.
Screen
Searching: Type-in
functions you can use in Relevance Searching
- + (plus, which
requires that a word or phrase following must appear in returned
records)
- - (minus, which
requires that all documents be excluded and not returned if they
contain the word or phrase following the minus)
- " " (double quotes
for phrase searching)