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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 🧰 Additional context used📚 Code guidelines (4)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds a proposal for CJK keyword search. It records evaluation results across search variants and embedders, recommends an approach, and outlines proposed implementation and shipping steps. ChangesCJK keyword search proposal
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Other Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The proposal's evaluation counts need reconciliation so readers can reproduce its comparisons. Runtime search behavior is unchanged; resolve the documentation discrepancy before merging. Architecture SummaryArchitecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change affects 1 system. Changed systems: Architecture concerns Review detailsSystems and components
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| - **Abstaining is worse under bge** (356 → 340). A Japanese question's Latin terms, such as a model name, are what currently find its answer. Under granite, the three extra Japanese answers are within noise. | ||
| - **idf weighting does nothing on its own**, since a CJK question is still one term. On top of segmenting, it is mixed: four more Chinese answers under bge, one fewer under granite, and seven LIMIT ranks moved under granite. It also rewrites [ADR 0031](../adr/0031-ranking-blends-absolute-leg-scores.md)'s score for every language. Not worth it on this evidence. | ||
| - **NFKC changes nothing but what it is for.** Every one of the 446 real queries ranks exactly as today under both embedders, and full-width queries go from 0 to 15 and 19. |
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Reconcile the 466- and 446-query counts.
The evaluation excludes the 20 synthetic full-width queries from every total. Therefore, the aggregate table should use 446 queries, and both statements should identify that same non-synthetic query set.
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-Top 5 out of 100 per MIRACL slice, the sum over all 466 real queries, and the full-width slice:
+Top 5 out of 100 per MIRACL slice, the sum over all 446 non-synthetic real queries, and the full-width slice:
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-Every one of the 446 real queries ranks exactly as today under both embedders, and full-width queries go from 0 to 15 and 19.
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Update the evaluation summary in the proposal so the aggregate table and ranking
statement both refer to the same 446 non-synthetic real queries; retain the
separate full-width query results.
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Merged into We'd like you to implement it under #1997; comment there to claim it. I checked the proposal against today's
Two small fixes to the doc while you're there:
Thank you. This is the kind of evidence a search change needs. |
What
A proposal,
docs/proposals/cjk-keyword-search.md(status: proposed), for giving Japanese and Chinese questions a keyword leg. Docs only.The recommendation: before the keyword index sees a text, apply NFKC, then write each run of Han or katakana as overlapping pairs, with hiragana as a separator. The same
segment()applies to every question. Because Python'ssqlite3cannot register an FTS5 tokenizer,chunks_ftsbecomes a contentless table filled byindexing.replace_chunks(), so no text is stored twice.Why
#1997 asks for the tradeoff to be evidenced per slice, and the authored CJK slices are too small to show it. The measurements are in a separate repository, https://github.com/vintcessun/surfsense-cjk-eval, which runs against an unmodified
dev(cddfd05f9), so SurfSense takes in no dataset or eval code. It adds 200 MIRACL questions with their judged passages to the eval's corpus and LIMIT-small (466 queries), and runs thirteen variants under both bge-small and the granite embedder thatretrieval.mdrecommends. How the results would be read was written into its README before they were run.Ｘ４００) be found at all.trigram(moves 14 queries without CJK under bge and 45 under granite);It also gives the order relative to the embedder change, since that decides how much of this matters for natural-language questions.
Refs #1997
How to test
To reproduce the numbers, see the repository's README.
High-level PR Summary
This PR proposes a keyword search improvement for Japanese and Chinese text in SurfSense's local search functionality. The proposal recommends applying NFKC normalization and segmenting Han/katakana characters into overlapping bigrams (with hiragana as separator) for both indexing and queries. External evaluation results show this lifts retrieval accuracy from 56% to 77% for Japanese and 47% to 75% for Chinese under the current embedder, while remaining neutral under a multilingual embedder but still improving keyword recall from 34%/1% to 99% and enabling full-width character search. The proposal includes detailed measurements, rejected alternatives, implementation costs (migration time, index size increase, hiragana-only word limitations), and a phased implementation plan.
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