I am bi-lingual, and would be able to test the German. I do not have large docbook files to provide, and would not have time to produce them before deadline. (Still completing my documentation and cleaning up final bugs)
I read French, but my Chinese is only conversational. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Kasun Gajasinghe < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 12 Aug 2010, at 09:17 PM, Ann-Marie Horcher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I am one of the other GSOC students. I would be happy to help my > compatriot with testing. > > > Hi Ann, > Thank you very much for your kindness. > Mainly we are in need of verifying the search results for languages other > than English. Currently webhelp has extensive support for English, French, > German and CJK languages. As both David and I not familiar with these > languages, it is little hard to verify the search output. > > And we need to verify that build process we specified in the doc is > precise, and easy to follow. > If you can try to build the webhelp and make sure it works perfectly with > one of *your* docbook XML file, it is greatly appreciated. > And if you are familiar with one of these languages I stated above, and > have docbook files to test them, it would be great. > > Any feedback about this is welcome! > > Ann, I hope you did a great work for this summer, and best of luck for your > project! :) > > David, if you can find some docbook files which doesn't have any > confidential issues, please send them to the list. > > Regards, > Kasun Gajasinghe > > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Cramer, David W (David) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> Kasun knows more about the details of the stemmer, but I can point you to >> the documentation for the porter stemmer we used: >> >> http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/porter/stemmer.html >> >> Currently, English, French, and German are supported. >> >> You are correct search does not support wildcards in searches, and I don't >> believe that the algorithm would return results with the same base but >> different prefixes (i.e. searching for "inhibit" won't show pages with >> "exhibit"), but I think that's normal for any search engine. >> >> I'll add "Support wildcards in query string" to the list of future >> features. I thought I had added it there already but I see now that it's not >> listed. >> >> Thanks, >> David >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Robert Fekete [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:14 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Help needed testing CJK search support in >> webhelp >> >> Hi David, >> >> First of all, thank you for both of you for your work, it looks very >> promising! >> I have a few questions about how search and stemming works: >> - Is it possible to add partial matches to the search results? For >> example, now >> if you search for install, installing, or installed, the same results are >> returned (correctly), because these words all come from install. But if >> you >> don't type the entire word (say, only 'inst'), there aren't any results. >> - Am I right that the search engine does prefix-only matches? (nstall, >> *nstall, >> etc. does not work) >> >> Regards, >> >> Robert >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > Ann-Marie Horcher > > -- Ann-Marie Horcher
