a great search engine

[Yoshimasa Tsuji]

Hello friends,
  While in Moscow last week, I visited ABBYY and asked their
sales manager Ljudmila Aleksandrovna for a trial version of
TextRetrival & Morphology Engine (the trial version lasts for
sixty days from the date of non-disclosure agreement).
  Having just tried a bit of it now, I can say it is a really
great utility -- you can ask the morphology server what's <dnja>,
and it will answer you it's the genetive case, singular, of <den'>,
etc. If you ask a full paradigm of the word <den'>, it will answer
you superbly. It is surely based on Zaliznjak, but the very first
glance will tell you that it is much, much richer than Zaliznjak.
In short, it is the engine that drives popular software like "lingvo6"
or "Prompt98"... I must buy a copy when I have sufficient study
grants. (To be honest, the text retrieval system is not necessary
at all, as everyone now has got one if one has a duly large corpus of
text. What one needs is the morphology engine at that quality.)

Have a look at "http://www.abbyy.ru" if you are going to build a
seach engine of your own.

Incidentally, I have found
    http://www.rambler.ru
    http://www.aport.ru
    yet another (sorry cannot remember, but it's elsewhere in the Bookmark).
sufficiently useful for searching all kinds of things, including
studies of the Russian economy.

Cheers,
Tsuji

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P.S.
If you have sufficient study grants but haven't got the
skill of writing API's (which requires Windows programming
knowledge), let me work with you: programming languages are
not the slightest problem for me.

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