Last week work on the second edition of Lucene In Action has been completed, and the book was sent to print. This book, authored by Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher and Otis Gospodnetić, is hands down the best guide to Lucene, the high-performance search engine library. Whether you are new to it, or...

Indexing Hebrew texts for later retrieval is not a trivial task. Although several solutions exist, I have pointed out that they are not necessarily providing the best results. Either way, there is no freely available solution allowing to index Hebrew even at the very basic level. HebMorph was starte...

As shown in the previous post, building a Hebrew-aware search engine is not trivial. Several attempts (mainly commercial) were made to deal with that. In this post I'm going to try and draw a complete picture of what they did, and show other routes that may exist. In the next post I'll discuss HebMo...