Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English-IAST search engine
Posted by Kelvin on 17 Sep 2015 at 03:21 am | Tagged as: programming, Lucene / Solr / Elasticsearch / Nutch, Python
I just launched a search application for the Monier-Williams dictionary, which is the definitive Sanskrit-English dictionary.
See it in action here: http://sanskrit.supermind.org
The app is built in Python and uses the Whoosh search engine. I chose Whoosh instead of Solr or ElasticSearch because I wanted to try building a search app which didn't depend on Java.
Features include:
– full-text search in Devanagari, English, IAST, ascii and HK
– results link to page scans
– more frequently occurring word senses are boosted higher in search results
– visually displays the MW level or depth of a word with list indentation