[Gllug] Thesaurus based searching

[rich at annexia.org]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:32:10AM +0000, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know of an open source thesaurus based search package,
> suitable for use on a web server. Something like swish, but with
> fuzzy/thesaurus based search capabilities.
> 
> I know of a few commercial solutions, but haven't been able to find
> anything in the open source world yet.

Have a look at Xapian and Lucene. Neither are "thesaurus based
search package[s]" but both are good search engines, about the
best that the free software world has to offer at the moment.

Rich.

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