On Mon Mar 8 16:35:12 EST 2010, [email protected] wrote:
> perhaps of interest is seft [http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/~oldk/seft/]
> which works well for me. It is unusual in that it allows all the usual
> text searching tools (including AltaVista's long lamented () "near" operator,
> but does not use indices, it does it the hard way.
>
> Before you dismiss this as slow, its just a matter of exactly what your
> problem is. Mine is a relatively small amount of rather dynamic data.
>
> if you want it I oprted it to APE here: contrib/install steve/seft
from
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F6653%2F17766%2F00824381.pdf%3Farnumber%3D824381&authDecision=-203
i get
"we call seft, offers performance that in a retrieval
effectiveness sense matches conventional information
retrieval systems, and in a resource efficiency sense,
while considerably slower than grep-like tools, is fast
enough to be useful on hundreds of megabytes of text
why would we go for "slower than grep"? wouldn't it be simpler
put a new queryish interface on grep á la 9fans.net/archive?
what am i missing?
- erik
