That's disappointing. Thanks for your answer. T. 29.11.2009, в 5:46, Raffi Krikorian написал(а):
> I'm sorry, but adding Serbian to the list is probably not a high priority for > search right now. > > > > On Nov 28, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Тома Тасовац <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Could somebody from the Twitter team please address my question about >> language recognition in the search API? >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> T. >> >> 25.11.2009, в 10:00, Toma написал(а): >> >>> Hi there. >>> >>> I am working on a WordNet-based Serbian-English dictionary (part of >>> Transpoetika Project at the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities, >>> http://humanistika.org) >>> >>> I've implemented a "LiveQuote" system with Twitter, where we get most >>> recent tweets exemplifying the use of a given dictionary entry. We >>> also have several other ideas on how to integrate Twitter in our >>> dictionary application, both on the production and reception ends. >>> >>> But we're facing a serious performance issue: Twitter's language >>> parameter (lang) does not recognize Serbian (sr). My workaround has >>> been to use Google Translate's API to check tweets to make sure they >>> are really Serbian. It works, Google is pretty good about this (not >>> 101%, but close enough), but this has considerably slowed down the >>> process -- every tweet we get for a certain word has to be checked >>> with Google before being displayed. >>> >>> Without a language check, however, we run into cases where certain >>> Russian, Bulgarian, Macedonian etc. tweets will sometimes sneak into >>> our results thanks to interlingual homographs. For eg. живот in >>> Serbian means "life", while in Russian it means "stomach". >>> >>> I am curious how you guys check for language identity on your backend, >>> and whether there was any chance you could include Serbian in the >>> list? >>> >>> All best, >>> Toma >>
