[Xapian-discuss] Re: searching and sorting by date

[James Aylett]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:42:58PM +0200, Arjen van der Meijden wrote:

> >Also, do we have figures on how often users bother to capitalise
> >proper nouns in natural language search? I'm guessing: not often.
> 
> Did you know Germans capitalize all their nouns? I don't know of any 
> other language where that happens though.
> Its not a relevant issue when deciding anything for English. For a 
> general case however, it might be an interesting fact to know :)

Yep, I knew that. However, as with English proper nouns, I'm guessing
that in many cases the corpus will be accurate wrt capitalisation, but
queries won't be - so our tactic of stemmed and R-unstemmed term
generation will still work as well as it can given available
information.

J

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