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How can I try Carrot2 with my own data? How can I integrate Carrot2 with my software? Can Carrot2 crawl my website? Can I use Carrot2 to cluster something else than search results? Can I force Carrot2 to cluster my documents to some predefined clusters / labels? How does Carrot2 clustering scale with respect to the number and length of documents? Can I perform clustering without specifying the query? How do I compile Carrot2 source code? How do I get started if I use Maven2? Why do I see "?" characters instead of my Chinese/ Polish/ other Unicode characters? Can I use Carrot2 in a commercial project? How can I acknowledge the use of Carrot2 on my site?
Please see User and Developer Manual for a number of
typical Carrot2 testing scenarios.
Please see User and Developer Manual for information about
integrating Carrot2 with Java and non-Java software.
No. Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an
existing search engine. You can use an Open Source project called Nutch to crawl your website. Nutch has
a Carrot2-based search clustering plugin, so you'll get all
crawling, searching and clustering in one piece. If you need help
with any of these, please contact us.
Absolutely. Carrot2 came about as a framework for building search results clustering
engines but its algorithms should successfully cluster up to about a thousand
text documents, a few paragraphs each.
No. Assigning documents to a set of predefined categories is a problem called
text classification / categorization and Carrot2 was not designed to solve it.
For text classification components you may want to see the
LingPipe project.
The most important characteristic of Carrot2 algorithms to keep in mind
is that they perform in-memory clustering. For this reason, as a rule of thumb, Carrot2 should
successfully deal with up to a thousand of documents, a few paragraphs each.
For algorithms designed to process millions of documents, you may want to check
out the Mahout project.
Yes. While the query is usually very helpful to get rid of the obvious
meanings related to the documents in the search results set, it is not
obligatory -- the clustering algorithms will cope without the query.
Please see User and Developer Manual for more information on
compiling Carrot2 source code.
Please see User and Developer Manual for information about adding
a Carrot2 dependency to an existing Maven2 project or setting up
a Carrot2 Maven2 project from scratch.
Please see User and Developer Manual for
troubleshooting URI encoding problems.
Yes. The only requirement is that you properly acknowledge the use of
Carrot2 (on the project's website and documentation) and let
us know about your project. Please also remember to read the license.
Please put a statement equivalent to "This product includes software
developed by the Carrot2 Project" on your site and link it to
Carrot2's website (http://www.carrot2.org). Additionally,
you can use some of our powered-by logos
if you like.
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