Non-English and Multi-Language Search with Apache Solr

Non-English and Multi-Language Search with Apache Solr

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Apache Solr is a powerful search engine well integrated with Drupal. Solr provides faceted or "guided navigation" which allows site visitors to quickly find what they are looking for by narrowing or refining their query by simply clicking on the links provided as "facets".

Unfortunately, the standard Apache Solr Search Integration module is not very suitable for non-English websites. A lot of manual work is necessary to provide a working setup e.g. for German or French websites.

The new complemental module 'Apache Solr Multilingual' simplifies the configuration of Apache Solr for non-English sites significantly. It also offers multilingual search for multi-language websites.

In this session, we will explain the fundamental language specific problems of full text searching using Apache Solr, present some real life multilingual examples from Switzerland and demonstrate the corresponding features of Apache Solr Multilingual.

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