CIS-385 (Dr. Jia Shen)

Search Skills

When you search a database, you need to learn some basic rules

1. Use quotes to search a phrase

Examples:

"artificial intelligence"

"natural language processing"

2. Boolean operators OR, AND, NOT

Please capitalize Boolean operators so the database can recognize them as Boolean Operators

Examples:

AND-Connects different concepts and narrow down a search

    ChatGPT AND hallucinations

    wiki AND  "internal communication"

OR-Connect similar concepts and broaden a search

     AI OR "artificial intelligence"

    "mash up" OR mashup OR mash-up

 NOT-"NOT" or "AND NOT" will exclude a term from a search

    chatgpt NOT "chatgpt 4 mini"

    communication NOT wireless

3. Use Brackets in Search Statement

    "social networking" AND (advertising OR promotion OR customer relation)

    ChatGPT OR Perplexity OR "Google Gemini" OR "Microsoft Copilot"

4. Truncation symbols to broaden your search, "*" and "?"

     comput*-computer, computers, computation, computational, computerizing, computerized

     wom?n-women or woman

     social network*-social network, social networks, social networking

5. Search not case sensitive

 Bill Gates=bill gates

United States=united states