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South Korea's ETRI develops advanced Linux desktop search system

ZDNet Korea looks at antbear, a desktop search system that addresses problems in the searching of text written with Asian character sets. "Advanced word recognition technology gives more reliable search results Linux desktop search, thus far, had some limitations due to its lacking features compared to Windows environment that has various features. Although 'Beagle' has been available for supporting Korean and other Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese), its 'bigram' search method in many situations fails to recognize true meanings of Asian characters for the search. For example, it breaks down and indexes the search word(s) into two separate characters, which can generate unrelated results. The reliability of the search result gets even worse when its search is based on larger number of files."
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South Korea's ETRI develops advanced Linux desktop search system

Posted Dec 22, 2006 3:43 UTC (Fri) by markcox (guest, #29577) [Link]

This article is just a press release, although it sounds v interesting, there is no mention of the licence, or the project page. Is this something that can be incorporated into other linux search technology? does anyone have a url for this project?

South Korea's ETRI develops advanced Linux desktop search system

Posted Dec 22, 2006 12:46 UTC (Fri) by jsatchell (guest, #6236) [Link]

I couldn't find any mention in a quick look at the ETRI website.

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