On Monday 11 Apr 2005 14:55, Mike Baranczak wrote: > Your example with Arabic wouldn't work reliably either - there are > several other languages that use the Arabic script (Persian for > example).
Good point. Although you could try a simple approach to test for the additional characters that exist in Persian but not in Arabic. Although, this again is not fool-proof. A letter-model approach would be better but is rather time consuming. > > This is the sort of problem that the end user can solve much better > than the software can. > I completely agree, which is why I originally suggested prompting the user for this info. It may be the case that for the majority of queries, English is the usual language. And it is probably more feasible to do a test to determine whether the query English or not (still very tricky, mind). If not, then prompt the user to specify their input language because otherwise, results will be poor. Andy Roberts > -MB > > On Apr 11, 2005, at 6:02 AM, Andy Roberts wrote: > > Can you not provide the user with a option list to specify their input > > language? > > > > Language identification can be a pretty tricky field. There are some > > tricks > > you can do with unicode to identify language, e.g., \u0600 - \u06FF > > contains > > the Arabic characters, so if you're input contains lots of chars > > within this > > range, you can guess that the input is Arabic, for example. > > > > The problem comes with differentiating between the languages that use > > a Latin > > alphabet. Again, there are multiple approaches, although the only one > > I know > > of that worked pretty well for identifying European languages was to > > build a > > model based on character bigrams (that is, sequences of two letters) > > [1] > > > > At the end of the day, Lucene cannot help you in choosing the correct > > language > > as it doesn't know, and so it'll be up to you to add the necessary > > logic to > > tell Lucene which Analyzers to utilise. :( > > > > Andy > > > > [1] Churcher, G E; Hayes, J; Hughes, J S; Johnson, S; Souter, C. > > Bigram and > > trigram models for language identification and classification in: > > Evett, L & > > Rose,T (editors) Computational Linguistics for Speech and Handwriting > > Recognition AISB'94 Workshop University of Leeds/AISB. 1994. > > > > On Monday 11 Apr 2005 01:21, Eric Chow wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> If I don't know the language of the input terms, how can I use > >> different analyzer to search it ? > >> > >> For example, the input box accepts UTF-8 search text, they can be > >> anything, such as Chinese, Japanese, English, Russian, Deuch, etc. How > >> can search any of them or all of them with Lucene? > >> > >> Any example, please? > >> > >> > >> Best Regards, > >> Eric > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
