[Sigia-l] MS Indexing Service 3.0

[Emma Dawson]

I'm in the process of designing an intranet site for a small research
organisation with a huge repository of so far unmanaged and virtually
unorganised electronic documents, comprising of their own, and other
people's research.  An absolute necessity for the intranet site is a
search tool.

One of the suggestions that has come up is the possibility of using the
MS Indexing Service - this is partially due to the lack of cost - but
also because there is a perception that this would be an easy and hassel
free solution.  Unfortunately I have no way of judging this as I can
find very little in the way of configuration information.  Nor can I
find much information on how hard/easy this service would be to adjust
to meet our needs.  Most pressing would be the ability to edit stop word
lists, and possibly incorporate some other controlled language features
- working in a very specialised area of the financial services market
this seems to be the best option for ensuring levels of precision and
recall that researches can live with.

Has anyone got any experience using this system (or even version 2.0)
or can anyone direct me to some good information on it?

Cheers,

Em




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