Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-01 Thread henrib
ranges. Finally, query expansion can also be used in the multiple indices case and might even use automated/guided translation. In my experience, multiple indices had many advantages over the single index solution, be them functional or operational. YMMV. Hope this helps, Henrib -- View t

Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-01 Thread henrib
By issuing multiple queries, one against each localized index, results being clustered by locale. You can further refine by translating the end-user input query terms for each locale and issue "translated" queries against the respective indices. I've seen satisfying results with "key" terms dicti

Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-01 Thread henrib
limited and used to influence scoring. pagod wrote: > > > henrib wrote: >> >> This allowed to have the same index structure across locales but >> different settings for each (synonyms, stemmers, etc). Maintenance was >> easier this way; when refining/updating

Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-01 Thread henrib
By issuing multiple queries, one against each localized index, results being clustered by locale. You can further refine by translating the end-user input query terms for each locale and issue "translated" queries against the respective indices. I've seen satisfying results with "key" terms dictio

Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-01 Thread henrib
d used to influence scoring. pagod wrote: > > > henrib wrote: >> >> This allowed to have the same index structure across locales but >> different settings for each (synonyms, stemmers, etc). Maintenance was >> easier this way; when refining/updating the settings (s

Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-01 Thread henrib
d used to influence scoring. pagod wrote: > > > henrib wrote: >> >> This allowed to have the same index structure across locales but >> different settings for each (synonyms, stemmers, etc). Maintenance was >> easier this way; when refining/updating the settings (s

Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-01 Thread henrib
By issuing multiple queries, one against each localized index, results being clustered by locale. You can further refine by translating the end-user input query terms for each locale and issue "translated" queries against the respective indices. I've seen satisfying results with "key" terms dicti

Re: Designing a multilingual index

2010-04-02 Thread henrib
sion. The simple route is to ignore the language, use ngrams, forget stemmers & al and just fire; recall will likely be good, precision not that much. Cheers Henrib -- View this message in context: http://n3.nabble.com/Designing-a-multilingual-index-tp688766p692481.html Sent from the Lucene - J