Re: Multiple languages - possible approach

2006-03-16 Thread Paul Cowan
Hi Grant and Otis, Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it. You've given some good ideas. Sounds like a really interesting system! I am curious, are your users fluent in multiple languages or are you using some type of translation component? The former. We're talking about construction pro

Re: Multiple languages - possible approach

2006-03-16 Thread Grant Ingersoll
Hi Paul, Sounds like a really interesting system! I am curious, are your users fluent in multiple languages or are you using some type of translation component? Some comments below and a few thoughts here. How are you querying? Are users entering mixed language queries too? Do you have a

Re: Multiple languages - possible approach

2006-03-15 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi Paul, I don't have any first-hand experience with this, but your suggestion about pluggable analyzers sounds both reasonable and interesting to me. One thing you did not mention as a mechanism for figuring out which analyzer to use is language identification (like the one you can find among