Foreign language search

jlin · Post by **jlin** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 11:29 am

Hi,
I know Thunderstone provides a word stemming process for English language content - taking the search words and going through a prefix/suffix stripping process to get better search results.

My question is: do you have a similar process for foreign languages, say Spanish?

Thanks,
Jessica

Post by **John** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 12:33 pm

The same process of suffix/prefix removal can be applied to any language, although you would need to supply your own prefix and suffix lists for languages other than English.

jlin · Post by **jlin** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 2:05 pm

Does that mean you don't have a standard Metamorph matching logic (such as prefix and suffix stripping for English, but it maybe different for other languages) that can be applied to Spanish language?
Thanks again.

Post by **John** » Mon Jul 09, 2001 2:52 pm

We do not have any logic or prefix/suffix lists specifically for Spanish.