Smart Search: Language and unlicensed books

Bernhard

Smart search seems impressive so far. Just some feedback:

Unlicensed books are shown in All-search. Will there be a way to not show them?
The search seems to assume that the search is in the UI language. My Logos is set to German, but most of my books are in English. But asking a question in English clearly confuses it. I am not expecting Logos to translate the search, but could you have the AI determine what language the question is in before answering?

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Mark Barnes (Logos)

Unlicensed books are shown in All-search. Will there be a way to not show them?

All Search searches all books, including unlicensed. Books search will limit to your own library.

The search seems to assume that the search is in the UI language.

Yes, that's the case. We've found that AI does a bad job of language detection for short queries, so we're trying to find new solutions to that problem. We've got a few ideas.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1284532#Comment_1284532

Hi Mark,

Please see some feedback and questions about Smart Search here:

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/220708/1284530.aspx#1284530

Bernhard

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1284532#Comment_1284532

All Search searches all books, including unlicensed. Books search will limit to your own library.

That makes sense. Actually, including unlicensed books is really generous, especially with the ability to summarize what the article says!

Yes, that's the case. We've found that AI does a bad job of language detection for short queries, so we're trying to find new solutions to that problem. We've got a few ideas.

Great! Yes, I imagine that short queries would pose a problem. For me, even a manual way to change the language would be okay.

Mark Barnes (Logos)

We're working on a better solution, but in the meantime, if you create a collection of only English books, the search engine will then give you good results for English search terms.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1287510#Comment_1287510

Please also see a similar bilingual issue with the Summarize function:

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/221145/1286805.aspx#1286805

Adam Borries (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1287529#Comment_1287529

Crosspost:

We've made improvements to English language detection in Smart Search. When using non-English UI, Smart Search now detects when a query is in English, and ranks English results appropriately. (It will not, as suggested in this thread, attempt to interpret and answer the question from resources in all languages.) This change is live in both the desktop and web apps.

Note that does not effect other language combinations; the best way to get results for another (non-English) language that differs from your app language is still to create a collection of books in that language. For example, If you use the app in Portuguese, and you want to use Smart Search for a Spanish query, search a collection of Spanish books.

Feedback and testing needed:
How often does Smart Search promote results in a language you were not expecting? How well does it work for one-word queries?

Kiyah

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1284532#Comment_1284532

Unlicensed books are shown in All-search. Will there be a way to not show them?

All Search searches all books, including unlicensed. Books search will limit to your own library.

Can there be a setting to prioritize books I own over books I don't, and maybe also a sorting/grouping option?

I may want to search All books in one window but still don't want to see a list that's mostly stuff I don't own.