Pull requests: CJK words and Snippet generator
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.search.xapian.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, The Cyrus IMAP mail server uses Xapian as search engine. Recently, FastMail has sponsored implementation of two Xapian features: CJK word splitting and a generator for search snippets. I've been working on both features and we would be happy to get them merged into Xapian master. The CJK word tokenizer uses the word segmentation algorithms of the International Components for Unicode library (ICU), which brings support for Japanese, Korean and Thai, among others. The feature co-exists with n-grams (which remain the default for CJK text) and the code is unit-tested [1]. In the feature branch, libicu is mandatory to build but that'd be easy to make optional. The search snippet generator has been an independent effort to Xapian's MSet::snippet generator. It orders snippets within a document by their relevance to the search terms, supports CJK and handles punctuation. The unit tests in the commit [2] outline its main capabilities. Would you be interested in these features? Just let us know what would be required to get them merged. As a minimum I'd rebase the current forks against latest master. I'll be happy to answer any questions or change requests. Cheers, Robert [1] CJK word splitter: https://github.com/rsto/xapian/commit/16dd9b232eb9b6e7346184db0790b6655180492c [2] Snippet generator: https://github.com/rsto/xapian/commit/979757c161ec912c98f2fe87595d7529740e3247#diff-832f4feb83e5ba60ebb64b4d8b93d93fR1