Fraunhofer Full Text Search

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With the search-options, standing below the input field, you can manage in detail, how the search functions operates/works. The options mean the following:

At least one word
A document will be found, if it contains at least one of the entered words.
A search recognizes as a word each coherent term, which is separated with a blank from the next one.
The input of wild cards (*,?) is not possible here.

Examples:

  • A search for “Munich Dresden” finds all documents which contains either the word “Munich” or the word “Dresden”, or both of them.
     
  • A search for "Munich-Bogenhausen" finds all documents which contains the word "Munich-Bogenhausen" since this is a coherent word for the system (it does not contain any blank, the hyphen is not considered as a separator!)

 

All Words
A document will be found, if it contains all of the entered words.
A search recognizes as a word every coherent term which is separated with a blank from the next one.
The input of wild cards (*,?) is not possible here.

Example:

  • A search for "Munich Dresden" finds all documents which contain both the words “Munich” and “Dresden” at least once.

 

Phrase/Free text search
A document will be found, if it contains all the entered words in the exact/definite order. In addition no further words may be between them.
A search recognizes as a word each coherent term, which is separated with a blank from the next one.
Additionally, here you can search with wildcards. The wildcards refers always to the respective word; they do not extend the whole phrase!

As wildcards are available:

* : Means any (or also zero) character in a word
? : Means exactly one character in a word

The combination of a phrase with wildcards makes the „free text search” possible.

Examples:

  • A search for "Director of the Fraunhofer-Institut" finds the documents which contain this phrase exactly in this form.
     
  • A search for “Director of the Fraunhofer-*” finds all documents from the above example and additionally e.g. “Director of the Fraunhofer-Technology-Development group"
     
  • A search for "Director * the Fraunhofer-Institut*" finds additionally documents which contain e.g. "Director of the Fraunhofer-Institutes". So the wildcard "*" here stands for exactly one word.