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Metamorph Intelligent Query Language
Metamorph: The Program Inside the Program
Background
Original Design Mandate
Tokenization and Inverted Files
Metamorph Query Language Highlights
Your Basic Metamorph Search
More Complex Query Syntax
Hits, Intersections and Sets
Definition and Background
Basic Operation
Intersections and Search Logic
Intersection Quantity Specification Further Explained
How `+' and `-' Logic Affects Intersection Settings
Modulating Set Size
Limiting Sets to Roots Only
Expanding Sets by Use of See References
Modulating Set Content
Modulating Hit Size by Adjusting Delimiters
Discussion
Delimiter Syntax Summary
Rules of Delimiter Syntax
Thesaurus Customization
Specializing Knowledge
Equivalence File Explanation
Editing Concept Sets With Backref
Toggling Equiv Expansion On or Off
Creating a User Equivalence File By Hand
User Equivalence File Format
Back Referencing
See Referencing
Word Classes and Parts of Speech
Rules of Precedence and Syntax
Specialized User Equivalence Files
Tailoring Metamorph's Linguistics
Editing Special Word Lists
Question Parsing
Morpheme Processing
Morpheme Stripping Routine
Suffix List Editing Notes
Toggling Prefix/Suffix Processing On/Off
Toggling Morpheme Rebuild Step On/Off
Setting Minimum Word Length
Warning to Linguistic Fiddlers
APICP Metamorph Control Parameters Summary
Types of Searches in Metamorph
Multiple Search Algorithms
The Natural Language Question
Single/Multiple Items, Keywords, Phrases, Wildcard Patterns (*)
Intelligent Intersection Search
String Search (Literal Pattern Match)
Fixed and Variable Length Regular Expressions (REX)
REX Description
Examples
Examples of Some Useful REX Expressions
Misspellings, Typos, and Pattern Approximations (XPM)
Searching for Approximations
XPM Rules of Syntax
Numeric Quantities Entered as Text (NPM)
Designating Logic Operators (+) and (-)
REX On Its Own
REX, The Regular Expression Pattern Matcher
REX Program Syntax and Options
Expressions
Repetition Operators
RE2 Syntax
\<nomatch\> Syntax
REX Caveats and Commentary
Some Useful REX Expressions
REX Replace Syntax
Other REX Notes
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Last updated: Apr 15 2024
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