There's code in Nutch to identify the language of a given text:
http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/apidocs/org/apache/nutch/analysis/lang/La
nguageIdentifier.html .

Peter 

-----Original Message-----
From: Maria Mosolova [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 8:48 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: multilingual list of stopwords

Thanks a lot to everyone who responded. Yes, I agree that eventually we
need to use separate stopword lists for different languages.
Unfortunately the data we are trying to index at the moment does not
contain any direct country/language information and we need to create
the first version of the index quickly. It does not look like analyzing
documents to determine their languge is something which could be
accomplished in a very limited timeframe. Or am I wrong here and there
are existing analyzers one could use?
Maria

On 10/18/07, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also "die" in German and English. --wunder
>
> On 10/18/07 4:16 AM, "Andrzej Bialecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > One example that I'm familiar with: words "is" and "by" in English 
> > and in Swedish. Both words are stopwords in English, but they are 
> > content words in Swedish (ice and village, respectively). Similarly,

> > "till" in Swedish is a stopword (to, towards), but it's a content
word in English.
>
>

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