... Hi Miles, We are currently using the ABC and the ACC. We are using the ABC for promotions - AKA Quicklinks (Ultraseek) and ACC for our categories. Its...
Does anyone have a proven project or program for improving relevance in Japanese language queries in IDOL? Or a set of resources to point me at so I can get my...
Hi Ed, I don't have answers specifically for Japanese, though we have dealt a bit with CJK in the past. We do have an article on Autonomy relevance in general:...
Mark: Thanks for the quick reply. These are some interesting and valuable articles. We are applying some of these techniques now with our English queries. My...
In my experience with Japanese search in Ultraseek, the customer needs to add terms to the user stemming dictionary. Terms like place names and product names...
I can offer a few general Japanese / Chinese comments, though not specific to your engine: 0: You might try to quantify if they are having trouble with...
HI Ed Just of curiosity,is your content a mix of English and Japanese or just Japanese and wht is the charset in the metadata fields..we have problem with...
Kalyan: We have a mixture of English and other language content. Japanese is one of our top 10 content languages. English accounts for 90% of our content in...
... I don't know IDOL, but my company sells software for name transliteration and translation, and I can say that removing or ignoring accents is not...
We can offer a few more thoughts about Japanese. We have been doing a lot of work with Japanese users of our information discovery toolkit (OrcaTec). Japanese...
Actually Basis Tech is pretty cool in that they even handle Arabic names, which apparently come in a great many forms. Hey Steve, you going to ESS? -- Mark...
... Here's an open source CJK tokeniser: http://code.google.com/p/cjk-tokenizer/ originally developed for use with Xapian, but should be adaptable. You can...
Hi Ed Mark's question about determining what kind of problem you think you have (recall vs. precision) is important, and it relates to the linguistic aspect of...
Thanks for replying Ed,By the way the link sent by Mark(Thanks Mark) on relevancy tuning does work..i read his article yesterday and we do use Method 1 in his...
Cool stuff from Avi. Otis G has a whole chapter in Tika in his Lucene in Action book, in the SECOND Edition. The first edition has a chapter on filters as...
Yes, the code for LIA #1 is available for download from http://manning.com/hatcher2 and chapter 7 describes that code through a file system indexer + parsers...
This is going to be a tough one for the IDOL engine, as its general approach is to minimize language-specific approaches tokenization, document-specific...
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He's got a pretty impressive background. Yahoo search tech for 10 years and Stanford PHD. We're not hiring fulltime guys like this at the moment, but given...
Yes, we are using it at several customers. We recommend it to all Ultraseek customers, mostly because we love IDOL and IDOL is now under the covers of...
Yes, Miles, you still have access to patches.py. But it has changed, so any modified patches.py could not just be directly copied over, you would want to...
... For the ten years that I worked on Ultraseek, we made it clear that there could be incompatible changes in major versions, but we worked hard to keep as...
... Ah, I'll admit others in our group (not me) are the experts on python / Ultraseek 5.x internals. But I've heard on this thread and from clients of...
I agree with Walter. In all the changes we had previously made to patches.py over the years, I only recall having to change our code once. I'm not saying that...
I'm glad to announce that Attivio has agreed to sponsor the 3rd annual Searchdev dinner in New York city, held in conjunction with the enterprise Search...
We have an opening for an experienced search engineer at Netflix. We are using Apache Solr, but experience with that specific engine is not required. If you...
Dear all, We're just in the process of drafting the programme for Search Solutions 2009, to be held at BCS HQ in London on October 1st. As in previous years,...
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