Hi all,
My friend Prof. Wu and his students developed Wikigazer
(
http://wil.csie.cyut.edu.tw/Wikigazer.php?hl=en ),
a cross-lingual Wikipedia search engine based on Lucene.
I would like to know if you think it's useful or not
I searched on "bus routes of Beijing", cross-language from English to Chinese :
http://wil.csie.cyut.edu.tw/cross_result.php?pagestart=0&q=bus+routes+o…
... there are 14 results, and if I mouseover the Cross Language / interwiki links, they
show me
roughly what the page is about
(e.g. first result is about "Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications
Card" and
seventh is about "Transportation in Beijing" ). Would it be possible to have
those interwiki
names prominently displayed if they match the search language? I.e. If the first line
said
"Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card" next to the title,
then as a
non-Chinese speaker who searched in English, it would be much more obvious from the
search
results what the page was about.
Also, there's an XSS on the "hl" field:
http://wil.csie.cyut.edu.tw/cross_result.php?pagestart=0&q=bus+routes+o…
is it fast enough from your location.
Up to 4 seconds for some searches, most searches took around 2 seconds.
Slowest was 168 seconds for the word "test", returns no results:
http://wil.csie.cyut.edu.tw/cross_result.php?pagestart=0&q=test&lan…
-- All the best,
Nick.