Queries are based on free-text searching in summaries of papers in the ACM publications database. Each summary contains title, author, journal, abstract, categories and subject descriptors from the ACM Computing Classification System , as well as the text of brief critiques published in Computing Reviews . Specific instructions on how to use this form can be found below . The search engine underlying this form is Glimpse . Search Patterns Allowable patterns consist of a sequence of words separated by blanks.
Words are typically sequences of alphanumeric characters.
Each word must contain at least two alphanumeric characters. Partial words are allowed. All searching is case-insensitive. Words can also be regular expressions. The syntax of regular expressions is in general the same as that for agrep .