Illinois Math and Science Academy
Search engine
The Illinois Math and Science Academy came to OJC requiring a search engine that was: powerful, so a consortium of schools could use it effectively to search education web sites; transparent, so students and their instructors could understand and modify it; and extensible, so it would serve as a test-bed for different search algorithms. The Academy asked first for a 'proof of concept' engine, expecting to ask for enhancements to that engine in the future. OJC has met all of the Academy's requirements, on time and within budget. Our 'proof of concept' search engine allowed queries based on boolean combinations of keywords---e.g., 'yellowstone and not (bear or geyser)'. The search engine we've delivered most recently allows a more flexible query language to be used (one more akin to the ones used on AltaVista, Google, and other popular engines), and it sorts the returned documents by their 'relevance' to the query.
Server and web clients for a
powerful lexical database
OJC wrote a program to serve the WordNet lexical database over the Internet and wrote Java and Perl/CGI clients for that server.
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