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		bryanrasmussen on Dec 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Build a search engine, not a vector DB Lucene supports decompounding and stemming, https://core.ac.uk/reader/154370300 depending on the language decompounding can be very important or of little import, Germanic languages should probably have decompounding.

toasted-subs on Dec 20, 2023 [–]

I wonder what the advantage/disadvantages of dedicated search tools like lucent instead of custom LLC.

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