Hi Alex, What you want to do is commonly referred to as "Cross Language Information Retrieval". Doug Oard at the University of Maryland has a page of CLIR resources here: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~dlrg/clir/
Grant Ingersoll responded to a similar question a couple of years ago on this list: <http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/e1398067af353a49/cross_lingual_ir#e1398067af353a49> Here's another recent thread with lots of good info, from the solr-user mailing list, on the same topic: <http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/f7c17dc516c89bf6/preparing_the_ground_for_a_real_multilang_index#797001daa3f73e17> Here's a paper written by a group that put together a Greek-English cross-language retrieval system using Lucene: http://www.springerlink.com/content/n172420t1346q683/ And here's another paper written by a group that made a Hindi and Telugu to English cross-language retrieval system using Lucene, from the CLEF 2006 conference proceedings: http://www.iiit.ac.in/techreports/2008_76.pdf Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex [mailto:azli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 10:30 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Query and language conversion > > Hi, > > I am new to Lucene so excuse me if this is a trivial question .. > > > I have data that I Index in a given language (English). My users will > come from different countries and my search screen will be > internationalized. My users will then probably query thing in their > own language. Is it possible too lookup for Items that were indexed > in a different language. > > To make thing a bit more clear. > > My "Business" object has a "type" attribute. In lucene the "type" field > is created. The Business object for "Doctor Smuck" will be indexed with > the "type" field as "medical doctor" or anything similar. My German > users will query using german languange. He tries to find a Doctor > using "Arzt" or maybe "Mediziner" as a query. Is Lucene able to match > the query to the value that was indexed in another language ? > Is there an analyser for that ? > > By the way : I can provide the probable input language, based on the > client's search page language, as a parameter if that helps (it > probably will) . > > Many thanks for your thoughts ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
