1) Can run on NT Server 4.0
2) Be able to do rather complex wildcard, proximity, and Boolean searches.
In the ideal world, users could search for something like:
quer* + [lo OR la OR los OR las] + *er
(some forms of querer "to want" + some DO pronouns + some infinitives
ending in -er)
(giving, for example, queria lo fazer: OldSp "I wanted to do it")
I've found search engines that have some degree of proximity searching and
others that allow limited wildcard searches (usually for suffixes: i.e.
play* = play, playing, plays, played, etc, but rarely the beginning of
words: *ing, or the middle of words: int*net). But I have yet to find one
that allows more robust wildcard searching, and especially one that allows
it to be combined with proximity or Boolean searches.
3) Provide hits from texts in context, but NOT ALLOW direct access to the
entire texts themselves (i.e. to prevent users from just downloading all of
the texts to their computer).
4) Costs $5000 or less, and allows a demonstration copy (i.e. times out) to
be loaded on to the webserver to see if it can do what I need.
Finding such a web-based search engine for my server has been kind of a
Holy Grail for me for the past 3-4 years. I've already looked extensively
though sites like www.searchtools.com, but haven't found anything that fits
the bill (at least from what I see there).
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance,
Mark Davies
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Mark Davies, Associate Professor, Spanish Linguistics
Dept. of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790-4300
Voice:309/438-7975 email:mdavies@ilstu.edu
Fax:309/438-8038 http://138.87.135.33/personal/
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