Language Support for Marginalia Search
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- #language-processing
- #multilingual-support
- #search-engine
- Search engine now supports German, French, and Swedish in addition to English.
- Language processing involves steps like text extraction, language identification, stemming, and POS-tagging.
- Challenges include handling language-specific nuances like Unicode normalization and grammatical differences.
- TF-IDF calculations are affected by the lack of non-English documents in the index.
- Configuration for language handling is done via XML for better validation support.
- Indexing strategy separates languages to avoid performance and accuracy issues.
- Current non-English document counts are significantly lower than English, affecting recall.
- New processes are in place to discover and verify viable domains in multiple languages.
- The search engine aims to index a billion documents, with current progress at 969M.