Re: Query foreign language "synonyms" / words of equivalent meaning?

2012-10-10 Thread Lance Norskog
org | Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 2:51:37 PM | Subject: Re: Query foreign language "synonyms" / words of equivalent meaning? | | Hi, | | We are using google translate to do something like what you | (onlinespending) want to do, so maybe it will help. | | During indexing, we store the se

Re: Query foreign language "synonyms" / words of equivalent meaning?

2012-10-10 Thread SUJIT PAL
Hi, We are using google translate to do something like what you (onlinespending) want to do, so maybe it will help. During indexing, we store the searchable fields from documents into a fields named _en, _fr, _es, etc. So assuming we capture title and body from each document, the fields are (t

Re: Query foreign language "synonyms" / words of equivalent meaning?

2012-10-09 Thread Bernd Fehling
As far as I know, there is no built-in functionality for language translation. I would propose to write one, but there are many many pitfalls. If you want to translate from one language to another you might have to know the "starting" language. Otherwise you get problems with translation. Not (ge