Query Tips

BibFinder can be queried by simply inputting your constraints into the query form. In the following, I list some example queries:

Example Query 1: Find all the papers written by Jeffrey Ullman.

Example Query 2: Find all the papers with "data" and "integration" in the title.

Example Query 3: Find all the papers written by Jeffrey Ullman which have "database" in their title and are published in Conference named sigmod before year 2001.

Example Query 4: Find all the papers written by Jeffrey Ullman. which have "Support" and "Pruning" in their title and are published in Journal tkde after year 1976.

Fields

The information in references is contained in several fields. You can restrict your search to certain fields which improves the precision of your search. If you enter queries in multiple fields then the queries will be connected with a logical AND and the result will only contain references that satisfy all conditions. Please not bind both Conference field and Journal field in a single query, since a paper can only appear in one of them.

Below you will find the list of fields you can search in and some tips on what kind of information you can expect to be contained in the fields and on how to form queries for each field effectively.

Author :

The name of a single author. If you know both the first name and the last name of the author, enter the author's first name followed by his/her last name. For example: Jeffrey Ullman. If you only know the last name or first name, you can enter it alone in the Author field. For example: Ullman. If you know the initial of the first name and the last name, you can enter it in both order, for example: J. Ullman or Ullman J.

Title:

Title of the publication. Stemming is not enabled. If you enter multiple keywords in the field then these keywords will be connected with a logical AND and the results will only contain references with all the words in their titles. For example: (data integration system) means to all references with "data" and "integration" and "system" in the title.

Journal or Conference Name:

Name of the journal or the conference proceedings in which a paper has been published.

Conference and journal names should be searched for with both their commonly acronyms and their full titles, e.g.

colt or (computational and learning and theory)
cacm or (communications and acm)
lncs or (lecture and notes and computer and science)

Only one of these two fields should be bound for a query.

Year :

You can indicate the publication year(s) in which you are interested. You must give full four-digit year numbers.

Plese note that the publication date of conference proceedings sometimes differs from the year during which the conference was held (typically it is one year later).

If you want to search for year ranges using the inequality operators, please note that the time needed to process your query increases with the number of overall publications in that range. Therefore if you include many years in your range (e.g. year>1940), the search will take a long time.

Last modified: Wed Dec 18 10:32:22 2002