1. Project Tukaram Sagar Tamhane
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IIT Bombay
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The Goal
To make Saint Tukaram’s Abhangas
available over web for browsing and
searching
Locate the right Abhangas that you need.
Present the pages to the user in
an order of importance.
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4. “EaI tukaramabaavaaMcyaa ABaMgaaMcaI gaaqaa”
The Source
The Abhangas are typed from a book called
“EaI tukaramabaavaaMcyaa ABaMgaaMcaI gaaqaa”
published on 6th November 1973 by the Govt. of Maharashtra
Previous editions: 1950 and 1955.
Number of Abhangas: 4644
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5. Creation of Web Content
Software used for typing: MS Word with Akruti_Priya_Expanded font and Akruti keyboard driver
Problems faced:
Non displayable characters
Eg:
This was typed as mna
Automated page splitting
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Converters Used
Akruti_Priya_Expanded ISCII converter: required for indexing the text
ISCII Monolingual ISFOC converter: required for displaying the text through DV-TTYogesh
XDVNG ISCII: for query strings to ISCII
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7. Technologies used for the Tukaram Search Engine
Input Technology:
Jtrans: XDVNG font
Keyboard Mapping:
Phonetic English
Result Display at client:
ISFOC
Encoding for indexing (storage):
ISCII
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Architecture
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Input Technology
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10. Components of the Search Engine
Index
Case sensitive ISCII
Database structure
Searcher
In-memory search
Algorithm: Hybrid of Hashing & Binary search
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Database Structure
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Snap shot of result
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Relevancy Criteria
Number of query words in the abhang
Position
Adjacency
Total number of words in the abhang
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General information
Number of abhangas : 4,644
Total number of words : 2,09,702
Number of distinct words : 34,773
Languages used for converters: Lex & C
Language used for search engine: Java 2
Scripting on client side : JavaScript
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Thank You
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