29 Jun
2012
29 Jun
'12
2:50 a.m.
On 06/28/2012 04:01 AM, savitha sundaramurthy wrote:
Hi all,
While trying to retrieve the search results had the following doubts.
*Problem: *
*
*
* *Say XWiki has three languages English, Spanish, French. I
give a query in English(some *proper noun*) ,
should it return the documents pertaining only to english or it can
return documents pertaining to other languages too?
If the scenario is such that it retrieves the documents irrespective of
languages, I have few ideas to deal with it.
1) We can get the documents, merge them, add the scores and give it a high
rating. This would help to avoid super
results such as a display of a different match in each language to some
extent.
2) Make it a part of facet search , where search results could be
differentiated base don language.
Would be really helpful to gain your suggestions.
XWiki is pretty unique in the way it handles multilingualism, so I can't
think of an example to follow.
Also, how a multilingual XWiki is going to be used depends a lot on the
particular organization using it, so one generic solution might not make
everybody happy, so multiple solutions to chose from (in the
administration) might be the proper way to go.
Here's how I would like things:
When searching for something, let's say "scorpions", and my current
language is English, I see first documents that are written in English:
"
Search results for "Scorpions":
[100%] Scorpion
[ 95%] The Scorpions
[ 50%] Scorpio
"
After that, we also search for a few top hits in all the other languages
except English, and if we have strong hits (let's say score above 75%),
we display something like:
"
You might be interested in these results in other languages:
[ 98%] [de] The Scoripions
[ 90%] [fr] Scorpiones
[ 89%] [ro] Scorpion
[[Search for "Scorpions" in every language]]
"
Now, I'm not sure when exactly to display this:
- every time when there are hits with a score above a threshold
- only when there are hits with scores higher than the best scoring
result in the current language
- only when there are few results in the current language (less than 5)
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