This search engine allows users to index, search and review the abstract of journal articles. It is written in C# with Lucene.NET search engine library v3.0.3. A simple GUI is also designed for the search engine.
- C# - main written language of the program
- Apache Lucene.NET - the search engine library applied (written in C# and targeted .NET users)
- Visual Studio 2017 - the IDE used to develop the entire program and design the GUI
- Index establishment
- Query parsing
- Query analysis
- Result retrieval and ranking
- Retrieved documents saving
- Pre-processing options for users (i.e.remove stopwords / term stemming)
- Shows search time and number of documents retrieved
- Text analyzer options: snowball (default), keyoword, simple, standard, stop, whitespace
| Major Class | Description |
|---|---|
| LuceneApplication | Main class for search operation |
| SearchInterface | The GUI interface class for the control functions |
| DisplayResults | The GUI interface class for result display |
| Collection | Parse the collection of documents |
| TextAnalyzer | Analyzer operation including term stemming, stopwords removal and tokenization |
| CustomerSimilarity | Term Frequency (TF) and document length normalization |
| Stopwords_list | List of the stopwords to be removed during pre-processing |
| PorterStemmer | The term stemmer applied in this program |
The below screenshot demonstrates the search engine GUI and the operational components.
For more screenshots, please go to https://github.com/msacwendychan/Document-Search-Engine/tree/master/Screenshots
Pull requests and improvement are welcome. :) Please make sure to include commit comments for each change made.
Team: Joe Qiu and Zhiyi Wu