Attivio promises to bridge the gap between DB and enterprise search

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Boston based Attivio (www.attivio.com) is founded by ex-FAST key people with Ali Riaz in the driver’s seat, and promises to bridge the gap between traditional Enterprise Search and traditional Databases/Information Warehouses. Being less than two years old, the new company is already making headlines, and time (and customers) will reveal how much is pure product

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OpenPipeline – an open-source document processing pipeline

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Most commercial search engines include a more or less advanced document processing pipeline for transforming raw input into something that can be indexed. The process involves normalization, entity extraction, linguistic processing, annotation, data cleansing etc. When it comes to Open Source search engines, they start getting pretty good at the core of indexing and search,

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Norweigan search portal Sesam.no releases middleware as GPL

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In this blog post, Sesam annonces that their middleware architecture, Sesam Search Application Toolkit (SESAT) is released as open source software. This is the piece of software (written in Java) which sits between the portal (such as sesam.no) and the data sources (such as FAST ESP, Yahoo! or a database) and dispatches in parallel a

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