Knowledge Discovery 26.2
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# Languages

When the Content component processes a document, it treats the text as a series of tokens (words), each of which is a unit of meaning. At a low level, this method is language independent. However, you can improve your query results by applying some language dependent processing.

Language dependent configuration allows you to:

- make sure that all your content is treated consistently, allowing cross-lingual search.

- filter your searches to content in a specific language.

This section describes the most important language concepts, and explains why you might use them.

- Language Types. The language and encoding of a document.

- Tokenization. The methods Content uses to split text into searchable tokens.

- Stemming. Processing that reduces groups of related words to a common stem.

- Stop Lists. Lists of words that do not convey meaning in documents.

- Cross-Lingual Search. Search across documents in multiple languages.

- Order of Language Processes. The order in which the language processing steps occur during indexing and querying.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery 26.2

Topic Title: Languages