Galago

Galago is a toolkit for experimenting with text search. It is based on small, pluggable components that are easy to replace and change, both during indexing and during retrieval.

Features

It includes TupleFlow, which is a distributed computation framework like MapReduce or Dryad. TupleFlow manages the difficult parts of processing text: serializing data, sorting it, and distributing processing. The IndexReader and IndexWriter classes manage storing key/value pairs like inverted lists. This makes it possible to make your own kinds of index structures without starting from scratch. The retrieval system supports a variant of the Indri query language, but redesigned to be more flexible. You can add your own query operators without recompiling the core libraries; just put your new operator in the classpath and reference it in a query.

Download

Galago can be obtained from the SourceForge Lemur Project Page.

Release History

 The first binary version (3.14159) of galago was released in Dec 2011. Release notes for the current release can be found on SourceForge.

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