Searching the Collections
- What is stemming, fuzziness, and synonyms?
Each of these broadens your search by taking your search terms and changing them so that you get more results.
Stemming tries variations of your search -- adding "s", "es", "ing", etc. Although it's not perfect, it generally finds most variations of English word forms.
Fuzzy Search The OCR of the image is often slightly incorrect, but close. By turning fuzziness on, you can find words that are close but not exactly the same as your search term.
Synonyms Synonyms will automatically expand your search to include similar terms. For example, if you search for "youth" with synonym expansion on, it will find documents with "youth", "teen", "teenager", and "adolescent". Or if you search for "latino", it will also find "hispanic".