[Xapian-discuss] How Xapian work with Thai ?
Richard Boulton
richard at lemurconsulting.com
Tue Jun 10 22:00:58 BST 2008
Olly Betts wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:45:54PM +0700, Sakesun Roykiattisak wrote:
>> Just a minute ago I've installed Flax and I'm very surprised.
>> Eventhough it's very far from perfect, it's very usable with my
>> language, Thai, out-of-the-box.
>
> This probably isn't the best place to ask about flax. It's not part
> of Xapian, rather a framework which uses Xapian.
There's a Flax mailing list (well, google group) at
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/flax-discuss
flax-discuss at googlegroups.com
Currently the language support in Flax is exactly that provided by
Xapian, which as Olly said is just stemming algorithms for certain
languages. For other languages, you can index without stemming, (which
is probably happening by default for you), which will (roughly) result
in the search engine splitting terms on whitespace and punctuation.
This won't give good results for languages in which this isn't actually
how words are separated, but often it works partially - I imagine this
is what is happening for you with Thai.
--
Richard
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