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Install LinguisticsStudio

You can use LinguisticsStudio (a product component of FAST ESP) to configure lemmatization for both document indexing and query processing. In addition, you can use LinguisticsStudio to create and edit synonym dictionaries.

Install LinguisticsStudio to configure synonym functionality with FAST ESP. Complete all the following steps on the FAST ESP computer on which you want to install LinguisticsStudio.

To install LinguisticsStudio

  1. Install the Java development kit (JDK) 6 (jdk-6u7-windows-i586-p.exe).
  2. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to reference JDK 6. For example, JAVA_HOME=c:\jdk6.
  3. Add the location of JDK 6 to the PATH environment variable. For example, c:\jdk6\bin.
  4. Extract $FASTROOT/LinquisticsStudio/linguisticsstudio-1.23-win32.win32.x86.zip into a folder $ls.
  5. Download the following necessary files for the installation based on $ls/installer/lingstudio_install.xml:
  6. After you download all the previous files, copy the files into the www folder in your ESP directory on which you want to install LinguisticsStudio. The following are sample folders:
  7. Update the lingstudio_install.xml file to reflect the new URL location of the files (if you are installing on the same computer that is your admin node). The following are sample URL entries from lingstudio_install.xml:
  8. Run the $ls/setup.cmd command to deploy the required files based on your updated lingstudio_install.xml file.
  9. Run the $ls/linguisticsstudio/linguisticsstudio.exe command.

More information:

The FAST ESP Installation Log

Configure Synonyms

How to Configure FAST ESP

How to Back Up FAST ESP Data