Re: [Semediawiki-user] New version of Special:Ask

[Philipp Z. <zal...@on...>]

Hey Brian,

we would be interested, too. How does your search interface look like? 
Could you provide screenshots?
As you might know we are applying Lucene for search, too. I think the 
most interesting aspect is, how to create a universal, google-like 
search that combines full-text search with semantic queries for SMW - if 
that is feasible at all. ;)

Regards,
Philipp

Patrick Nagel schrieb:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On 2009-12-01 19:27 UTC Brian J Mingus wrote:
>   
>> For my own wikis I have developed a much more user friendly version
>>  of Special:Ask using the mediawiki api and mwclient. It uses ajax
>>  and it rewrites your queries allowing for a simplified input format
>>  that is more similar to Google's. I think a big problem with
>>  semantic mediawiki is that it lacks an obviously useful search
>>  engine. There is no reason to force users to learn this new query
>>  language when almost all of the boolean operations it supports are
>>  also supported using syntax that users already know.
>>
>> Unfortunately I have found that semantic mediawiki is in practice too
>>  slow to be used as a search engine. I purchased a quad core nehalem
>>  (i7) web server with 8gb of memory and my entire wiki is in memory
>>  and the query process still takes almost a second nonetheless. Thus
>>  I developed a new search engine that utilizes Lucene. It doesn't
>>  completely support smw but it does know how to parse nested
>>  templates and I map these templates onto fields into lucene making
>>  for a lightning fast millisecond speed search engine.
>>
>> I'm not suggesting you use the technologies that I developed, just
>>  pointing out that in practice coming up with a new and better
>>  solution is one or two developer days of work. Fixing the search
>>  engine in smw to be more googlesque would probably take a week to
>>  get it right.
>>     
>
> That sounds very interesting. Would you be willing to share the code you 
> use for your Lucene-based SMW search engine?
>
> Patrick.
>
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