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
  • REX Expression Syntax
  • REX Repetition Operators
  • REX Replacement Strings
  • REX Caveats and Commentary
  • Other REX Notes