Xapian Search Engine Library
Fast, scalable and flexible search
Fast, scalable and flexible search
Xapian is a Search Engine Library which aims to be fast, scalable, and flexible. It's used by many organizations and software projects around the world, including Debian, Gnome, KDE, One Laptop per Child, and Ubuntu.
It supports ranking by Language Modelling, TF-IDF, probabilistic schemes, and Divergence from Randomness, plus a rich set of boolean query operators, and re-ranking using Machine Learning. The core library is written in C++, with bindings to allow use from many other languages.
2018 Program
Successful Projects
Contributor
Uppinder Chugh
Mentor
Richhiey Thomas, Amanda Jayanetti, Vivek Pal
Organization
Xapian Search Engine Library
Diversification of Search Results
A user of a general web search engine may use ambiguous queries such as "java", which could mean the programming language or the island. It is...