Database Software

Could someone perhaps point to a good online source of basic information about how to USE oracle text in searches?

I'm specifically looking for information about how to do searches like {woman NOT man}, or whether "woman" will select "women" or whether "$woman" will select "man" and so on. What switches are there to control what is searched for? What booleans are allowed and how must they be presented, and so on.

I'm doing OK with the official oracle documentation, but something snappier and abstracted would be good to find!

Any good book recommendations would be appreciated, too. (Especially since doing a search at Amazon for "oracle text" brings up a lot of textbooks about Oracle, but not many obviously about the specific database feature!)

In the meantime, could someone answer a simple question I've not been able to find a simple answer to so far? Can Oracle text do 'NOT' searches? (As in 'man not boy')?