Re: tlug: mail archive and search software

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "ash" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:

    ash> I vaguely remember someone mentioning chasen or some such
    ash> thing to do the indexing. Is this the thing to use?

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> IIRC, Chasen does Japanese morphology, and thus is very
    Stephen> useful as part of a backend.  It is not itself an indexer
    Stephen> AFAIK.

    ash> I'm not sure my technical or linguistic abilities are up to
    ash> putting together a search engine with chasen...

It's pretty low-level, I think it would take time as well as
knowledge.

    Stephen> I think that probably what you recall is a discussion of
    Stephen> stuff like glimpse, which does have a Japanese port.  I
    Stephen> don't think it's Chasen-enabled, though.

    ash> I had a look at the glimpse home page, but I didn't see
    ash> anything about Japanese support. I kind of remember it _not_
    ash> supporting Japanese. Is there a Japanese patch for it?

I seem to recall someone saying something along those lines, maybe at
the I18N talk.  Check on ftp.pht.co.jp for an RPM in turbolinuxj; I
don't much about it, I haven't paid much attention to glimpse for a
couple of years.

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