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Language support in Meilisearch

UB4.136 | Day 2 | 13:15 - 13:45 | Speakers: many

Language support in Meilisearch
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Abstract

Meilisearch (https://www.meilisearch.com/) is a popular Open-Source search engine written in Rust that boasts more than 50k stars on GitHub, focusing on performance and ease-of-use. Meilisearch is designed to be available worldwide, which requires supporting multiple languages through word tokenization. But, how difficult is it to segment and normalize words? And, how different this process can be depending on the Language?

Meilisearch core maintainers share how they handled language support, the difficulties they faced, and the solution they found.

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Rust developer engineer at Meilisearch

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