SEFT: a search engine for text

  • Authors:
  • Owen de Kretser;Alistair Moffat

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present a software tool called seft which balances the convenience of search tools such as grep with the functionality of full-text index-based information retrieval. Based on a novel retrieval heuristic which uses term locality as a guide to relevance, seft combines the freedom of natural language queries with the benefits of a ranked answer list and easy inspection of retrieval results. While not as fast as grep-style tools, seft provides a valuable facility for impromptu personal information retrieval tasks.