Re: Text search engine [OT]

2008-08-21 Thread Dermot
2008/8/21 Marc van Driel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hope you enjoy it! I know the author appreciates feedback :) > > Cheers > > Raymond Wan schreef: >> >> Hi Marc, >> >> Yes, it seems we were both right :-). From Dermot's first post, I guess >> he was asking about Perl interfacing an IR system and why

Re: Text search engine [OT]

2008-08-21 Thread Marc van Driel
Hi Dermont/Ray, Please check out the MRS system (mrs.cmbi.ru.nl). It has a SOAP interface to perl and other languages, and is extremely fast in indexing and retrieval. MRS is a generic tool and you can index yourself, but also dowload indexed bio-databanks. The source code is in C++ and is av

Re: Text search engine

2008-08-21 Thread Dr.Ruud
Dermot schreef: > This is a slighty OT query. > > I am looking for a text search engine that has a Perl interface. I > have found a few, Lucene, OpenFTS and Swish-E. OpenFTS hasn't had a > release of the last 3 years. That makes me nervous about using it. > Lucene is java based. I have zero java

Re: Text search engine [OT]

2008-08-21 Thread Dermot
2008/8/21 Raymond Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Dermot, > > Off-topic, so I hope no one minds if I reply. > > Perl is good at manipulating text strings, but that doesn't usually help > search engine implementations. A search engine (or information retrieval > system) has to be fast and after it

Re: Text search engine

2008-08-21 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
It hasn't had a release for a few years either but I've successfully used Plucene to build a search engine for inhouse mailing lists. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Plucene/ -J -- On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:46:42PM +0100, Dermot wrote: > Hi, > > This is a slighty OT query. > > I am looking for a

Re: Text search engine [OT]

2008-08-20 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi Dermot, Off-topic, so I hope no one minds if I reply. Perl is good at manipulating text strings, but that doesn't usually help search engine implementations. A search engine (or information retrieval system) has to be fast and after it has tokenized the document collection or query, you'

Re: Text search engine

2008-08-20 Thread Rob Dixon
Dermot wrote: > > This is a slighty OT query. > > I am looking for a text search engine that has a Perl interface. I > have found a few, Lucene, OpenFTS and Swish-E. OpenFTS hasn't had a > release of the last 3 years. That makes me nervous about using it. > Lucene is java based. I have zero java