[Xapian-discuss] different stemming

[james cauwelier]

mmmhh,  the problem is that the site itself is in one language.  But it 's
perfectly possible that somebody belgian wants to buy a spanish book and so
this person will search with spanish keywords.

I already feared that I should get rid of the stemming.

2009/5/8 James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org>

> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:43:16AM +0200, james cauwelier wrote:
>
> > The site I am working on has products in different languages (dutch,
> > english, french, italian, spanish).  I want to search these products, but
> > while indexing I should use the correct stemmer.  No problem, because I
> know
> > the language of a product description.
> >
> > But when somebody queries the database I have no information about the
> > language.  Thus, I am not able to select the correct stemmer for queries.
> > How should I solve this?  Skip stemming altogether?  That 's what I am
> doing
> > now.
>
> I know this isn't the most helpful answer, but "it depends". You could
> disable stemming, but this may have unhelpful effects on the quality
> of your results. That's almost certainly the simplest thing to do,
> though.
>
> If you can figure out what language they care about most, you can stem
> to that language and restrict the search to documents (products) that
> were in that language in the first place. You may be able to ponder
> this from the same source as you're choosing site localisation.
>
> J
>
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>  James Aylett
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