Re: [HACKERS] Enhancing phonetic search support for more languages - GSoC 2010

2010-04-09 Thread Dhiraj Lohiya
Hello Please find my project proposal at the following link: https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B4sVSOdX9RZKNjI1MDZlNDgtZGU0MS00NDE4LThiZDItMjZhMGZkYjUzMWExhl=en I would be glad to have your review/feedback on the same. -- Regards Dhiraj Lohiya

[HACKERS] Enhancing phonetic search support for more languages - GSoC 2010

2010-04-07 Thread Dhiraj Lohiya
Hello I am Dhiraj Lohiya, Computer Science undergraduate from BITS Pilani. I wanted to propose idea to improvise upon the *phonetic search support, *initially for some Indian languages like Hindi and Marathi with a framework for extending it to other languages easily by contributing the rules in

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancing phonetic search support for more languages - GSoC 2010

2010-04-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Dhiraj, For instance, if many users(above a threshold set by us) insert some search string for which no wanted search result is retrieved, we could track what he finally selects and then accordingly append/modify our set of phonetic rules based on the phonetic mismatch amongst the query

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancing phonetic search support for more languages - GSoC 2010

2010-04-07 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Dhiraj Lohiya lohiya.dhi...@gmail.com wrote: For instance, if many users(above a threshold set by us) insert some search string for which no wanted search result is retrieved, we could track what he finally selects and then accordingly append/modify our set of

Re: [HACKERS] Enhancing phonetic search support for more languages - GSoC 2010

2010-04-07 Thread Dhiraj Lohiya
I'm also curious why you chose to focus on the extremely imprecise soundex instead of the more discriminating metaphone. The main reason to choose soundex over metaphone/double metaphone is for Indian languages, soundex itself with some customizations works pretty well. Use of Double Metaphone