Re: [Ltru] tags for Chinese

[John Cowan <[e-mail]>]

Peter Constable scripsit:

> - Filtering returns a number of records from a (typically sizeable)
> corpus. Here, a record tagged with greater specificity than was
> indicated in the query can always be returned (e.g., if user asks for
> en, then en-GB is certainly valid); relevance of record that are tagged
> more generically (e.g., en when user asked specifically for en-GB)
> is very much in question. A Web search would be a typical scenario in
> which filtering is appropriate.

Distinguo.

As we have established on this list, filtering is also used when
retrieving from multilingual web sites.  In this context, the corpus is
typically small.  (If filtering produces zero results, some web servers
do lookup instead.)

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