Zettair is a compact text
search engine
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
for indexing and search of HTML (or
TREC) collections. It is an
open source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
software developed by a group of researchers at
RMIT University
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city ...
.
Its primary feature is the ability to handle large document collections (100
GB and more). It has a single
executable
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, which performs both on-the-fly
indexing and searching, with a
command-line interface
A command-line interpreter or command-line processor uses a command-line interface (CLI) to receive commands from a user in the form of lines of text. This provides a means of setting parameters for the environment, invoking executables and pro ...
.
It is licensed under the terms of the
GPL license
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.
See also
*
Information retrieval (IR)
*
Zetta
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Bibliography
RMIT University at TREC 2004 (pdf)- B. Billerbeck, A. Cannane, A. Chattaraj, N. Lester, W. Webber, H. E. Williams, J. Yiannis, J. Zobel - 2005 - RMIT University
Enhancing Content-And-Structure Information Retrieval using a Native XML Database(presentation)
{dead link, date=July 2016 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes - J. Pehcevski (RMIT), J. A. Thom (RMIT), A.-M. Vercoustre (INRIA) - 2005 - Cornell University Library
External links
Zettair Project
Free search engine software