Keyword Search Examples

The word lovely stems to love. The following words also stem to love.

TIP: To determine the stem of a word, use the TermGetInfo action. To determine the words to which a stem expands, use the TermExpand action.

LOVE LOVELY LOVING
LOVED LOVES LOVINGLY
LOVELIES LOVEST LOVINGS

Example 1 (Conceptual)

action=Query&Text=Lovely
  • Default matching

  • AdvancedSearch=True
  • AdvancedCaseSearch=True

Content matches this query conceptually, in the default configuration or when you set AdvancedSearch or AdvancedCaseSearch to True. The query word is neither in quotation marks nor prefixed with a tilde (~), so Content finds documents that contain words that have the same stem as lovely (ignoring their case).

Example matching words Example nonmatching words
lovely lover
love lovelorn
loved loveless
loving  

Example 2 (Conceptual or Exact)

action=Query&Text="Lovely"
  • Default matching

    In the Content default configuration, Content ignores the quotation marks and matches the word conceptually. It finds documents that contain words that have the same stem as lovely (ignoring their case).

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    lovely lover
    love lovelorn
    loved loveless
    loving  
  • AdvancedSearch=True or AdvancedCaseSearch=True

    If you set AdvancedSearch or AdvancedCaseSearch to True, Content matches the exact form of the term, because the query word is in quotation marks. It finds only documents that contain the word lovely. Because the word is not prefixed with a tilde (~), Content ignores its case.

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    lovely love
      loved
      loving
      lover

Example 3 (Conceptual)

action=Query&Text=~Lovely
  • Default matching

    In the default configuration, Content ignores the tilde (~) and matches the word conceptually. It finds documents that contain words that have the same stem as lovely (ignoring their case).

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    lovely lover
    love lovelorn
    loved loveless
    loving  
  • AdvancedSearch=True

    If you set AdvancedSearch to True, Content ignores the tilde (~) and matches the word conceptually, because the query word is not in quotation marks. It finds documents that contain words that have the same stem as lovely (ignoring their case).

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    lovely lover
    love lovelorn
    loved loveless
    loving  
  • AdvancedCaseSearch=True

    If you set AdvancedCaseSearch to True, Content matches conceptually and case-sensitively, because the query word is prefixed with a tilde (~) but not in quotation marks. It finds documents that contain words that have the same stem as Lovely.

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    Lovely lovely
    Love love
    Loved loved
    Loving loving

Example 4 (Conceptual or Exact)

action=Query&Text="~Lovely"
  • Default matching

    In the default configuration, Content ignores the tilde (~) and the quotation marks, and matches the word conceptually. It finds documents that contain words that have the same stem as lovely (ignoring their case).

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    lovely lover
    love lovelorn
    loved loveless
    loving  
  • AdvancedSearch=True

    If you set AdvancedSearch to True, Content ignores the tilde (~) and matches the exact form of the term. It finds only documents that contain the word lovely (ignoring its case).

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    lovely love
    Lovely loved
      loving
  • AdvancedCaseSearch=True

    If you set AdvancedCaseSearch to True, Content matches it exactly and case-sensitively because the query word is prefixed with a tilde (~) and in quotation marks. It finds only documents that contain the word Lovely.

    Example matching words Example nonmatching words
    Lovely lovely
      love
      loved
      loving