Hi Clemens, If you will be searching individual languages, go with language-specific indices. Wunder likes to give an example of "die" in German vs. English. :)
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Clemens Wyss <clemens...@mysign.ch> > To: "java-user@lucene.apache.org" <java-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Tue, January 18, 2011 12:53:57 PM > Subject: Best practices for multiple languages? > > What is the "best practice" to support multiple languages, i.e. >Lucene-Documents that have multiple language content/fields? > > Should > a) each language be indexed in a seperate index/directory or should > b) the Documents (in a single directory) hold the diverse localized fields? > > We most often will be searching "language dependent" which (at least >performance wise) mandates one-directory-per-language... > > Any (lucene specific) white papers on this topic? > > Thx in advance > Clemens > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
