Bar Ilan Software Support - Word Families
1From the Search screen, with the Advanced Search option active, click Families (you can only work with Word Families in advanced searches).
2. Click New Family.
3. Type the name you want to assign the family.
4. Click OK or press ENTER.
5. Click Add Word.
6. Type the first word you want to include in the family, and click Add or press ENTER.
7. Repeat the previous step until you have finished specifying all the words you want to include in the family. Then click OK.
8. Delete undesired words by clicking them; then click Delete Word.
9. Click OK twice.
• In the Bar Ilan Responsa Project CD when specifying words in a family, you cannot use signs such as $, %, etc., to indicate grammatical variants; rather, you must specify precisely which forms you want to find.
• To back up the list of word families (along with other user-specified search information), make a copy of the files in RESPONSADATA.
(b) To define a word family in the course of a filtered search:
1. With the Selection and Filtering window displayed on screen (see above, p. 41), select the forms which you don’t want to include in the family. Alternatively, click the forms which you do want to include in the family, and click Reverse Selection.
2. Click Save Words.
3. Type the name you want to assign the family.
4. Save the family by clicking OK.
5. Proceed with the filtered search by clicking Continue Searching, or cancel by clicking Cancel.
(c) To edit an existing word family in the Bar Ilan Responsa Project:
1. Click the list of families, and select the family you want to edit.
2. Add or delete words as you would when defining a word family.
3. Save the family by clicking OK.
Searching for Word Families
To search for a family of words in the Bar Ilan CD:
1. From the Search window, with the Advanced Search option active, do one of the following:
Click Families. Then select the family you want to search for, and click OK.
Type the name of the family for which you want to search, double-click it, and click the Family button.
Type a right angle bracket (<), the name of the family you want to search for, and then a left angle bracket (>), e.g. <שבטים>.
2. Click Search in your Reponsa CD to proceed with the search.
Deleting Word Families
To delete word families from the family list:
1. From the Search window, with the Advanced Search option active, click Families.
2. Click the list of families and select the family or families you want to delete.
3. Click Delete Family. If you want to delete all the families in the list, click Delete All.
4. Click OK.
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