I made a presentation about "Portable Full-text Retrieval System" in The Eighth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services ([http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ICIW13.html:title=ICIW 2013]) held at H10 Roma Città. But I regret to fail to give a satisfactory response to questions during the discussion.
Here I am taking a look back over the questions and showing a written response.
Q: Does the system deal with the Open Document Format?
A: Currently, no. But because the text extractor, xdoc2txt, accepts OpenDocument, our system will be able to deal with the documents of this format by a slight modification to the PHP file for the document registration.
Q: Can you support non-Windows users?
A: The system I talked about is just for Windows users, mainly because most humanity researchers I met have made use of Windows PCs.
In our laboratory, however, we are developing a more flexible document management system. In this system, a sophisticated search engine groonga is adopted instead of Hyper Estraier, while we will construct the system based on a virtual OS and an emerging environment-creation tool named Vagrant. Because groonga and Vagrant are available in Linux and Mac OS X, as well as in Windows, we consider we will support much more users.
Q: Can I use your system with a smartphone?
A: I am sorry but the system was intended for PC use. I suppose smartphones are poor at document registration and character input.
I referred to a related work in our paper, where apparently the person who registered the documents was not the same as the application user.
Q: How can I set up a smartphone-ready retrieval environment under your system?
A: I think it is fast and snappy to use a mobile router and treat a Windows PC with our system as the server.
