new OLAC-oriented search engine

[Helen Aristar-Dry]

Hi, Baden,
The ldc link doesn't seem to be working.
-Helen


Quoting Baden Hughes <badenh at CS.MU.OZ.AU>:

> Dear OLAC Implementers,
>
> A new service has recently been added to the LDC site, namely an OLAC
> Search Engine [1].
>
> This search engine complements other OLAC search engines including those
> already deployed at LinguistList [2]. This instantiation takes an entirely
> different
> approach, and aims to be very similar to key-word-based web search engines.
>
> Other features of the search engine include:
>
> - search by alternate names using the Ethnologue
> - search by language code
> - key word in context highlighting in search results
> - search for similar spellings
> - exact/approximate/partial string matching
> - search operators (AND, OR, NOT, +, -)
> - support for inline syntax (eg creator:hale)
> - search for related items on Google.
>
> The search engine results are displayed according to the quality of the
> metadata on a per record and per archive basis. These rankings are derived
> from the same underlying
> algorithm used in the OLAC Archive Reports [3].
>
> The service was developed by Amol Kamat, Baden Hughes, and Steven Bird
> at the University of Melbourne, with sponsorship from the Department of
> Computer Science and Software Engineering.  We welcome your feedback.
>
> Regards
>
> Baden Hughes
>
> [1] http://wave.ldc.upenn.edu/olac/search.php
> [2]
>
http://cf.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/olac/olac-search-advanced.cfm
> [3]
>
http://www.language-archives.org/tools/reports/archiveReportCard.php?archive=all
>


-Helen

Helen Aristar-Dry
Prof. of Linguistics
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48103
hdry at linguistlist.org
734.487.0144 (office)  734.741.1567 (home)

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