タイ語検索のネックは単語切り分け

日本語の形態素分析のようにタイ語では単語をどこで切るのかが、タイ語検索上で問題になる。サイアムグルSiamguruの検索アルゴリズムは自然言語処理NLPを使うことで検索速度を上げている。siamguruの検索エンジンはタイのビジネスで使われているCRMソフトのバックボーンになっている。

While many Internet users are familiar with SiamGuru’s search engine, which was launched in June 2000, few realise that the technology developed by Surapan and his SiamGuru team required dealing with unique Thai-language structural issues, particularly the lack of spacing between words.
Siamguru then developed a search engine with algorithms that could swiftly sort through any data input typed in Thai. The power of SiamGuru’s search engine is derived from the company’s expertise in a branch of artificial intelligence called “natural language processing” – or NLP.

http://nationmultimedia.com/page.news.php3?clid=6&id=120164&usrsess=1
http://www.siamguru.com/index.html