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Configure Smart Analytics to support more languages

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With the out-of-box configuration, Smart Analytics supports the same language list that Service Manager supports. If the texts entered in the records (such as in title and description) are not in a language that is included in the supported language list of Service Manager, these texts cannot be indexed and analyzed by Smart Analytics.

However, Smart Analytics can be configured to index and analyze texts in other languages in addition to the out-of-box supported languages. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. In the IDOL configuration file (<Smart Analytics>/IDOL/IDOLServer.cfg), add the desired language type into the [LanguageTypes] section. For example, if you want to support Vietnamese, you can add the following line into the [LanguageTypes] section:

    19=Vietnamese
  2. Add encoding format and stoplist into the [LanguageTypes] section. For example, you can add the flowing configurations for Vietnamese:

    [vietnamese]
    Encodings=UTF8:vietnameseUTF8
    Stoplist=vietnamese.dat

    Note The stoplist file is a text file placed in the <Smart Analytics>/langfiles folder, which contains words that you do not want to be treated as keywords in the query requests to IDOL.

  3. Save the file.

Note The IDOLServer.cfg configuration file does not affect the language support for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature. OCR recognizes images based on the language setting specified in the contact record of a user in Service Manager. If no language is set in the user’s contact record, English is used as the default value in image recognition by Smart Analytics.