Name: Jayendranath Krishnamoorthy
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Bio: Associate Architect, Technology, Virtusa Corporation. Jayendranath has been working on different search engines such as Lucene, Fast, Open Text, Mark Logic for more than 4 years and specialized in enterprise solution for content searching and search related technologies. He is primarily involved in architecting content search frameworks and consulting search engine technologies for Fortune 500 companies across the globe. Jayendranath is adept at content integration, processing, text search performance tuning, searching Asian languages and cross language searching. Jayendranath has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering from Madras University, Chennai, India. His interests are in River water boating, Kayaking, and wood handcrafting.
Posts by jayendranathk:
Text Searching for Asian Languages: Challenges & Strategies
November 8th, 2010Compared to English, the rules for breaking up words into their base forms and modified forms are very different for Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Precision and recall are two of the parameters that determine search engine quality. A perfect precision score means every result retrieved by a search was relevant but it does not say if all relevant documents were retrieved. A perfect recall score means all relevant documents were retrieved but it does not say how many irrelevant documents were also retrieved.
Developing a search engine for Asian languages with 100% precision and recall is extremely challenging because of various orthography variants Read the rest of this entry “
