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textmaker@hotmail.com (L Metcalfe) wrote:

>
>Hello all!
>
>I've searched everywhere on the net for this without success. If you
>could help me, I'd be hugely grateful. 
>
>I'm looking for a program that generates an index on a lot of text,
>not just searching for all individual words and small phrases (as Alta
>Vista does) but large strings of words making up paragraphs and entire
>letters. 
>
>It would generate a list ranked according to number of successful hits
>and size of the string, preferably not counting hits of small strings
>within the body of larger strings which have occurred a decent number
>of times (to disallow double counting).
>
>More intelligent features like similarity of strings (words in a
>different order, part of speech or having a good proportion of the
>words), and perhaps even ascertaining meaning would be nice, but not
>required. 
>
>
>Unix would be helpful (it can prolly be able to achieve this on one
>command line?) or an MS-DOS or Windows (3.1, 95 or NT) utility would
>be fantastic! 
>
>
>Thank you,
>
>textmaker@hotmail.com
The last time I needed something to do this kind of text parsing under
UNIX, I wound up writing some 600 lines of C code to parse a 64
character "free-form" data entry field.  

The more sophisticated Web search engines have these capabilities, but
there's a LOT of code involved to handle the "word A + word B in the
same reference and give points for being close" algorithm.

Someone has the source for this type search, but I doubt that it's
free ;-)

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