p-search is an Emacs tool to find things. It combines concepts from information retrievial and Bayesian search theory to assist a user in finding documents.
Boolean searches (i.e. the document contains the word “X”), while simple and useful, ofthen don’t match the prior beliefs of the searcher concerning where the relevant files are. Often times the searcher has specific ideas as to where the document is located. Like what type of file it is, who authored the document, when the document was created. The searcher often times isn’t fully confident as to how the seach terms appear or whether they appear at all.
p-search provides a framework to coherently combine all this data to rank documents and to revise the rankings as the user searches through documents.
This project is still a work in progress. When you see documentation here, it means that the package is ready to be used.
