Hi!
>> Does the htdig or udmsearch allow pattern search (glob or
>> regexp)? They seem not to do. Grammatical, phonetic and
>> so on varitions is not perfect...
> As fas as I know, UdmSearch (now mnoGoSeach) does not
> support pattern search. I haven't investigated the front
> ends thoroughly yet. The architecture could support SQL
> "like" clause queries on words, but this would propaply be
> slow.
Postgres even can do regexp search. But It failed to work
with this (I guess, too large archive). I'm going to keep
trying.
> But it does support recognition of grammatical variations,
> to a limited extent. It can make use of Ispell
> dictionaries for this end. But, these don't suit the
> purpose very well. A real morphology component would be
> better.
As I said, grammatical variations cannot make me happy.
Internet is not for a fiction stories only... Grammatics
cannot find, for example, "wwwoffle."
Max.
PS. namazu seems to be able to do what I want... I will look
at it.
