Multilingual - Search against the appropriate field

2010-07-01 Thread Saïd Radhouani
Hi, I know this topic has been treated many times in the (distant) past, but I wonder whether there are new better practices/tendencies. In my application, I'm dealing with documents in different languages. Each document is monolingual; it has some fields containing free text and a set of

Re: Multilingual - Search against the appropriate field

2010-07-01 Thread Jan Høydahl / Cominvent
Hi, I have chosen the same approach as you, indexing content into text_language fields with custom analysis, and it works great. Solr does not have any overhead with this even if there are hundreds of languages, due to the schema-less nature of Lucene. And if you know which language is being

Re: Multilingual - Search against the appropriate field

2010-07-01 Thread Saïd Radhouani
Hi Jan, I totally agree with what you said. In a), you talked about boosting. I guess you meant to boost at the client side, right? I still have a question: does Solr choose the appropriate analysis for the query. i.e., if a query is compared to a document having English free text

Re: Multilingual - Search against the appropriate field

2010-07-01 Thread Saïd Radhouani
Hi Jan, I totally agree with what you said. In a), you talked about boosting. I guess you meant to boost at the client side, right? I still have a question: does Solr choose the appropriate analysis for the query. i.e., if a query is compared to a document having English free text