According to Mimo Assassa: > Dear sir, > > I am developping a search engine to search for similar words in arabic, > and as I found a mail that mentioned your interest about this subject I > would like to ask you if you have already found a solution for this. > In case you have and you have published it, I would be very greatful if > you would send me the link or any refrence to solve my problem. > > Thank you very much for your efforts. > > Best regards, > Mimo Assassa
The search engine I use is ht://Dig (see http://www.htdig.org), which can handle any 8-bit character set that's supported by a UNIX/Linux "locale". I don't know if arabic falls into that category or not. Red Hat 7.2 does have arabic locales, but they seem to use Unicode or UTF8 which htdig doesn't support. As for the metaphone algorithm, the one that's included in ht://Dig is English-specific, but it probably wouldn't be that difficult to add fuzzy match algorithms for other languages if they're available (as open source). I'm posting this to the htdig-general mailing list just in case someone else on the list has more experience with arabic search engines. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
