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kaon_2today at 10:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

Can you elaborate? We have technicians searching in different languages. Also our knowledge base is often in different languages. I just don't see how full text search can work? Maybe in a problem space like a wiki where people always know what to search for?


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tantalortoday at 11:31 AM

FTS like Elasticsearch supports cross-language (also called multi-language) search.

jon-woodtoday at 11:04 AM

Instinctively this feels like a two phase problem - start with some machine translation into a single spoken language and index that, then when people are querying do the same thing. When returning search results show them in the original language.

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