Danilo Šegan wrote: > Hi Jamie, Hi,
> > Yesterday at 20:13, Jamie McCracken wrote: > >> Also I would add that the sophisticated snowball stemmers that tracker >> uses allow for more accurate searches - EG "Fly" and "Flies" will match >> against "Flying" > > Now we're getting to an interesting I18N point (and you should take > into account that I am in no way NLP expert): how do these stemmers cope > with languages other than English? see http://snowball.tartarus.org/ tracker has stemmers and stopword lists for all the languages listed there. the chosen stemmer is currently determined by either --language param passed to trackerd or by your locale. We will also look at the stuff mentioned in bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377891 so supporting language detection and applying appropriate stemmer is something we will be looking into. > > And can we add subtle features like Google search has had with > script transliteration mappings (for example, it will search both > Serbian Cyrillic and Latin texts if you input Serbian Latin; for > GNOME, I'd like the search to work both ways in Serbian locale)? > We would first need the code to do the translation (or an optional library we could use to do it). If above code is reasonable then I dont have a problem supporting it. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
