[Xapian-discuss] How term distance impacts the weight?

[Justin Finkelstein]

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 05:28 +0100, Olly Betts wrote:


> > Can I understand that position is more useful for Oriental language like
> > Chinese, Japanese Korean than for Western Languages,
> > because Oriental language need word segmentation?
> 
> I don't see why it would be inherently more useful there, though I don't
> know any of those languages in great detail.


Would it help if a couple of people fluent in those languages were able
to contribute a set of rules which could be translated into positional
logic?