Posts Tagged ‘language

If you’re designing a web application, you may think that developing it in English will be quite enough. Remember, though, that only 22% of internet users speak English as their native language, and 85% of ecommerce consumers won’t buy a product if they can’t read about it in their native language, which leaves only one [...]

In this post we will see how to use a Stemming algorithm for search purposes. A stemming algorithm lets you reduce each English input word to its basic root or stem (e.g. ‘walking’ to ‘walk’) so that variations on a word (‘walks’, ‘walked’, ‘walking’) are considered equivalent when searching. This stems can than be used [...]