What is a compound word? A compound word is a word that consists of two or more nouns that together form a word with its own meaning, which is very typical in some languages, like the Scandinavian languages. How is a compound word treated in a search? When searching, a . . . Read more
Default translations are the small pieces of text that appear in the template of the website, such as “did you mean..” or “your search for …”. These are automatically translated into the language that the search is set up for. However, it is possible to rephrase or change the translation. . . . Read more
Stop words are fill words that don’t provide any context and they will be ignored in the search query, thereby increasing relevancy in search. There is a list of stop words for every language that is supported by Cludo. Below you can find the stop words for a few languages: . . . Read more
Lemmatization is the process of grouping together the inflected forms of a word so they can be analyzed as a single item, identified by the word’s lemma, or dictionary form. Unlike stemming, lemmatization depends on correctly identifying the intended part of speech and meaning of a word in a sentence, . . . Read more
The natural language processing at Cludo consists of multiple steps: Supported Languages Language ISO code Tokenization Elision Stop words Stemming Arabic ar ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ Armenian hy ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ Basque eu ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ Brazilian pt-br ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ Bulgarian bg ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ . . . Read more
The number of languages on a website will often determine the number of crawlers and engines needed for a site search. For accurate indexing, you need a unique crawler for each language site. This is important in order to fully support each language and ensure that the results returned are . . . Read more
Cludo supports bigram matching as one of multiple natural language processing tools. Bigram matching allows better support for compound words, meaning words consisting of multiple words. Bigram matching is especially useful for certain languages where compound words are very common, such as the Nordic languages. It can also be useful . . . Read more
Misspellings allow you to correct specified search terms that are commonly misspelled by visitors and not automatically detected by the search engine. By defining the correct spelling of an incorrectly spelled search term, the engine will replace the misspelled query with the correct one to display results from this. Misspellings . . . Read more
With misspellings, you can manually add terms to be corrected automatically in the search. A term that you added a misspelling for will always be corrected to the spelling you’ve defined. You have now added a Misspelling. All of your search engines using this language will correct the defined misspelling . . . Read more
The Misspellings feature allows you to add custom corrections of misspellings. However, it is not the only way the search engine will attempt to correct an incorrectly spelled search term. Before you set up a bunch of misspellings for common search terms, it can be good to understand what is . . . Read more