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:
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>> 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
>>
>>
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