[Xapian-discuss] Xapian presentation

[James Aylett]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:59:57AM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:

> That shouldn't be too ambitious.  Something like building an index
> of Shakespeare's complete works, or something similarly small, so
> that you can perform the indexing during the talk, would be ideal.

That'd be neat. I have word splitting a la QueryParser in Python
already (although I'm not entirely sure where - I think I have
index_text() in woodpecker3).

I'll probably prepare to do either Shakespeare, or something that will
index Atom (since I'm working on that myself anyway). It'd be kind of
cool to build something that can index Atom, and have people shout out
URLs to throw it at.

> When's the talk likely to happen, if it does?

Barcamp London is the first weekend of September.

> In related news, I'm likely to be giving a Xapian talk for the British
> Computer Society in November.  This will probably be a less technical one
> than the one you're giving, though I've not yet thought in detail about
> what to cover.

By "less technical", I assume you mean "less hands-on", rather than
actually with less technical detail. I'm not going to go into IR
theory, or even touch on weighting, the various functors at all. I'll
probably not use stemming, to avoid having to explain it.

James

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