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Project description

• Goal
• Build a personal search engine on top of local
  collection of documents
• Requirements
• Good JAVA programming skills
• Good English
• Interest in information retrieval
• Outcome
• Understanding of basic search engine architecture
• General knowledge about LUCENE information
  retrieval tool
• Experience of running software project and
  teamwork

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LUCENE information retrieval library

• Lucene is a Java-based open source toolkit for
  text indexing and searching
• Easy to use, flexible, and powerful -- a model of
  good object-oriented software architecture.
• The important book is Lucene in Action by Erik
  Hatcher and Otis Gospodnetic

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How does the possible outcome look like?
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Project Output by 9 February 2005

• Project documentation
• Implementation of the system
• Public presentation of project results