I developed my own query language influenced by the one used at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Their query language is a implementation of another used in a piece of software called BRS/Search [1]. Most of these kind of query languages are pretty similar and really only differ in how they treat proximity operations and field selection.
I liked the USPTO's query language because it is quite expressive and powerful while still being relatively compact when compared to other query languages [2] out there, but I disliked some of the other syntax in it for that matter. I added several additional operations, including ALONG for lines and AMONG for clauses. The fuzzy search aspect of my language is also unique. I don't know of any other query language that lets searchers specify that locally rather than globally.
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I developed my own query language influenced by the one used at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Their query language is a implementation of another used in a piece of software called BRS/Search [1]. Most of these kind of query languages are pretty similar and really only differ in how they treat proximity operations and field selection.
I liked the USPTO's query language because it is quite expressive and powerful while still being relatively compact when compared to other query languages [2] out there, but I disliked some of the other syntax in it for that matter. I added several additional operations, including ALONG for lines and AMONG for clauses. The fuzzy search aspect of my language is also unique. I don't know of any other query language that lets searchers specify that locally rather than globally.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRS/Search
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_Query_Language