Entering a query

For information about working with search results, see Overview of search results.

Cognitive Search

Goldfire provides users with a set of cognitive search features that enhance and better support your search experience. Content must be indexed (or reindexed if already indexed) for the following cognitive search features to take effect:

  • Boolean-Free Searching: Enables users to search all metadata associated with documents without Boolean operands. This means that users do not need to type <and> and <in> operands in their searches. Examples of fields to which you might apply Boolean-free searching are: file name, file extension, and other high-importance fields. Users simply type keywords and Goldfire returns relevant matches.

    The exception to Boolean-free searching is queries related to dates, which requires the use of Boolean operands.

  • Wildcard Searching: Enables users to replace characters in the words of their query with an asterisk (*). You can use the wildcard mode of searching to search for metadata associated with the documents. Examples of fields to which you might apply wildcard searching are: file name, folder, document type, etc.

    Wildcard searching does not apply to searching for content within the document body. However, a number of  filter categories exist to address this, and enable you to search for metadata from within document body that is extracted by natural language processing technology.

  • Improved PDF Searching: Goldfire detects and  categorizes the content of a PDF document into logical fields (Table, Figure, etc.), which enables users perform more effective queries by using these fields as advanced filters in the query.

To enter a new query

  1. Click one of the following to choose where you want to search:
    • Accuris Content
    • Articles
    • Patents

    • Corporate

    • My Data, when this option is selected, the above options are cleared.

If you are logged into Goldfire and you are also logged into an Engineering Workbench account, you can select the My Subscriptions check box when conducting a query to display search results with Accuris sources that are part of your subscriptions. When this check box is selected, Accuris sources related to your query that are not part of your subscriptions are not displayed.

  1. In the Query box, type a natural language query as a sentence, a question, or a phrase (up to 8092 characters). Goldfire provides a list of suggestions and possible corrections as you type.

If multi-language searching is enabled, specify a language for your query by clicking (Language) at the left of the Query box, and then click the language that you want. The following languages are available:

The Russian semantic engine is partially supported by Goldfire and is limited in scope. A limited set of corporate categories for Russian is available to users. Russian is not a language that can be translated into and from other Goldfire supported languages.

  1. (Optional) To filter source documents (for example, by title, by author or editor, by publication date, by publication number, etc.), click Advanced .

You should always use the Advanced Search feature to search by metadata such as title, author, publication date, or publication number. Results will be more reliable than they would be if you included such metadata information as keywords in the main query box.

  1. Click   to start the search.

To translate your search results

  • If multi-language searching is enabled, click Translation at the right of the query box.

Using synonyms and ontology sets

When you submit a query for processing, Goldfire automatically generates a list of query word synonyms that might be relevant to your original query. It also generates a list of more general terms and more specific terms that might be relevant to your original query.

To display the list of synonyms, more general terms, and more specific terms

Exact Search

Goldfire enables you to target your query to an exact term or phrase when you contain the contents of your search within quotation marks. This search capability allows you to conduct queries with precision. Documents with content in the document title and/or in the document body that exactly matches your query are returned in the results list. Furthermore, this search capability is enabled for all the languages that are supported by Goldfire.  If you want take full advantage of the exact search functionality as you search for relevant documents in your existing corporate and personal knowledge bases, then it is necessary to rebuild them.

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