Software

During the course of the semester, we'll be making use of various software systems. The primary one that you'll need to get familiar with is Lucene, an open source free-text indexing system.  I don't really have a preference with respect to programming language.   The main Lucene project is java-based, but there are several versions in other languages (python, ruby, etc.).  Some of these are native reimplementations, others like pylucene are wrappers. Your mileage may vary with these.

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