I am looking at Lucene as the search engine for our office's legal research site. We have been looking at some of the commercial offerings, but Lucene seems to offer most of what we need, and we may end up using it and spending money on paying someone to customize it to our needs.
For our purposes, one feature that is probably indispensible is hit highlighing and hit navigation. I see the former has already been added to the contributions section. With respect to hit navigation, the kind of thing I am looking at is along the lines of that used by the Fulcrum search engine; if anyone is not familiar with Fulcrum, a good example site is the Government of Canada Employment Insurance Jurisprudence Library at http://www.ei-ae.gc.ca/easyk/search.asp. Do a search for any term (try "fired"), then click on any of the resulting documents. The resulting page has the search terms highlighted, much as they would be in Lucene with the hit highlighting added, with a narrow frame at the top of the window with hit navigation buttons to allow users to jump to the next search term in the document. Would it be difficult to implement something similar with Lucene? I am not familiar with the technologies involved (I am not a coder), so do not know if this is trivial or impossible or somewhere in between. Any thoughts would be appreciated, Bruce -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
