Wouldn't the conversion to a western writing followed by Soundex or Metaphone be the right thing to try?
I thought such conversions were mainstream. paul Le 20 oct. 2011 à 12:16, Otis Gospodnetic a écrit : > Hi, > > Wow, interesting question. Can soundex even be applied to a language like > Chinese, which is tonal and doesn't have individual letters, but whole > characters? I'm no expert, but intuitively speaking it sounds hard or maybe > even impossible... > > Otis > ---- > > Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch > Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ > > >> ________________________________ >> From: Floyd Wu <floyd...@gmail.com> >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:43 AM >> Subject: Does anybody has experience in Chinese soundex(sounds like) of SOLR? >> >> Hi there, >> >> There are many English soundex implementation can be referenced, but I >> wonder how to do Chinese soundex(sounds like) filter (maybe). >> >> any idea? >> >> Floyd >> >>