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Article #6942Re: Intelligent Text Search (this is very useful - already been done, surely?)
From: David James Gillespie
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:00
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On Sun, 19 Oct 1997 01:28:48 GMT, L Metcalfe (textmaker@hotmail.com) wrote: : : 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. : You want a full-text database that does ranked and proximity queries, by the sound of it. We've produced a GPLware full-text database that does the former, and which is being modified to do the latter. It may not be exactly what you want, but have a look. http://www.kbs.citri.edu.au/mg Regards, William Webber -- William Webber Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au Food. Shelter. Source code. "'This tree is certainly good for nothing,' said Tzu Chi. 'This is why it has grown so large. Ah-ha! This is the sort of uselessness that sages live by.'" --- _The_Book_of_Chuang_Tzu_
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1027c4,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gid1027c4,public X-Google-Thread: 10bba1,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bba1,public X-Google-Thread: f71eb,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gidf71eb,public X-Google-Thread: 107393,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gid107393,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 10259a,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gid10259a,public X-Google-Thread: 117bd2,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gid117bd2,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,7010cf40caf57528 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public From: wew@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (David James Gillespie ) Subject: Re: Intelligent Text Search (this is very useful - already been done, surely?) Date: 1997/10/20 Message-ID: <62fmd2$r24$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 281979489 References: <34495ddd.11886710@news.zip.com.au> Followup-To: comp.text,aus.computers,comp.ai.natlang,comp.editors,comp.infosystems.search,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.perl,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,comp.unix,comp.unix.questions,nz.general,alt.lang.basic,alt.os.linux,alt.windows95,aus.ai Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. NNTP-Posting-User: wew Newsgroups: comp.text,aus.computers,comp.ai.natlang,comp.editors,comp.infosystems.search,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.perl,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,comp.unix,comp.unix.questions,nz.general,alt.lang.basic,alt.os.linux,alt.windows95,aus.ai