Okawix:Okawix-doc.item8/en

How to search within a corpus ( Search field and Go searching button): Okawix makes it possible to search within the active corpus for the articles relevant to a query of your choice. This functionality is brought by the Wikiwix semantic search engine (developed, as well as Okawix, by the Linterweb company).

Search is simple: just type your query in the search field. As you type it, the autocomplete feature provides you with suggestions of queries relevant to what you have typed in so far and to the currently active corpus (the autocomplete functionality is activated only after you've typed in the search field at least four letters; note that the simple fact that a word does not appear in the suggestion list does not imply that the word has no occurrences in the corpus or that no articles of the corpus will match your query).

Once your query is typed, do one of the following to complete the search:

- click one of the suggested terms.

- select one of the suggested terms with the Up and Down cursor keys, and hit Enter.

- type a word in the Search field and hit Enter.

- type a word in the Search field and click on the Go searching button.

The first twenty-five search results are displayed in the left collapsible frame, sorted by relevance to your query. The names of the articles found by the search engine are written on coloured rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the relevance of the articles to your query.

Note 1 : the fact that an article appears amongst the results relevant to a query does not imply that the article contains all the words of this query; the relevance of an article is evaluated by the Wikiwix search engine with the help of complex algorithms whose details are unfortunately beyond the scope of this documentation.

Note 2 : Wikiwix is designed to best deal with the questions posed in natural (also called ordinary) language. That is, instead of typing in the search field just keywords, which you expect will produce the best search results, that is, instead of adapting your query to the search engine, as you would do with most search engines, you can with Wikiwix ask your question just as you would do if you spoke to a human person. For instance, let's assume that you would like to know how high the Eiffel tower is. With Wikiwix, you can pose your question this way: "How high is the Eiffel tower?". Wikiwix will then attempt to "understand" the meaning of your query and to send you back the search results most relevant to this question. We must however make it clear that Wikiwix does not yet reach the degree of intelligence of a true human being as for the understanding of questions; improvements will be brought as new versions of Okawix and Wikiwix are released.