The article discusses the recent pilot project aimed at expanding the language support of the Marginalia search engine beyond English, now allowing experimental searches in German, French, and Swedish. It highlights the challenges of adapting the search engine's architecture to handle various linguistic features and cultural differences inherent in different languages. Additionally, it addresses the complexities of language processing, including stemming, POS tagging, and the implications for keyword extraction and indexing.
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