Convert Talkwalker to Boolean (Generic)
Lift a Talkwalker search into a plain Boolean string for an API that does not speak a provider-specific dialect.
Once the syntax is sorted
Three different situations, depending on how far along the move is.
Reference
Worked example
Talkwalker query
country:us AND (recall NEAR/5 defect)
Boolean (Generic) output
us AND recall AND defect
What carries over, and what does not
Carries over
- •Boolean AND / OR / NOT
- •Wildcards
Degrades or drops
- •Proximity (NEAR/n) is dropped (Boolean (Generic) does not support it)
- •An OR chain over 500 branches is truncated to 500 (an engine-wide limit, not specific to Boolean (Generic))