Linguistics Features in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint: Lab

This document is provided as-is. Information and views expressed in this document, including URL and other Internet Web site references, may change without notice. You bear the risk of using it. Some examples depicted herein are provided for illustration only and are fictitious. No real association or connection is intended or should be inferred. This document does not provide you with any legal rights to any intellectual property in any Microsoft product. You may copy and use this document for your internal, reference purposes. 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Linguistics Features in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint: Lab
Summary: This is the lab for the Linguistics Features in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint module. Applies to: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 | Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Federation Published: September 2010 Provided by: Cindy Staley, Senior Technical Instructor, Microsoft Learning | Microsoft Corporation

Contents
Exercise 1: Work with Content in Multiple Languages ..............................................................................................3 Task 1: Feed sample documents into FS4SP ....................................................................................................3 Task 2: Search for documents in multiple languages ........................................................................................3 Exercise 2: Manage Keywords ..............................................................................................................................4 Task 1: Define a keyword with a two-way synonym .........................................................................................4 Exercise 3: Stemming ..................................................................................................................................5 Conclusion.........................................................................................................................................................6

Page ii

Exercise 1: Work with Content in Multiple Languages

Scenario Your search application needs to handle content in multiple languages. In this exercise, you will verify that FS4SP can process content in several languages and support searching for content in a specific language. For this exercise, you have been provided with a set of documents to feed into FS4SP. These documents are located at \Labfiles\Linguistics\sampledocs, on the C drive. The documents consist of HTML and text versions of the same file(s), translated into multiple languages. You will feed these documents into FS4SP, then using the advanced search page, conduct searches restricted to a specific language.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

Feed sample documents into FS4SP Search for documents in multiple languages

Task 1: Feed sample documents into FS4SP

1. Feed the sample documents into FS4SP using a file system crawler. 1. In Central Administration, select Manage service applications. 2. From the list of service applications, select FASTContent. 3. In the Crawling section of the left navigation area, select Content Sources. 4. Click New Content Source. 5. Enter a content source name: Training Content. 6. For content source type, select the File Shares radio button. 7. In the Start Addresses box, enter \\demo2010a\c$\labfiles\linguistics\sampledocs\. 8. Scroll down and check the Start full crawl of this content source checkbox. 9. Click the OK button. 2. Monitor the progress of the crawl in the Crawl Log area. The crawl for this content source will be complete when the log shows 16 successes. 3. Examine the txt files contained in the sampledocs folder. Note that these files do not contain any metadata on the language of the text to be indexed. Therefore, FAST Search for SharePoint is identifying the language of these documents through direct analysis of the text.

Task 2: Search for documents in multiple languages

1. In a browser window, navigate to the search application: http://intranet.contoso.com/customsearch 2. Click the Advanced link to navigate to the advanced search page. 3. Search for word. The search results should include documents from multiple languages.

Page iii

Navigate back to the Advanced Search Page. This time, restrict your search to French documents and search for word again. This time, your search should only return documents whose language was identified as French. Notice that the search query, as displayed on the results page, includes the language restriction.

Results: After this exercise, you should have fed content from multiple languages and tested language identification by using the advanced search page to restrict searches to specific languages.

Exercise 2: Manage Keywords

Scenario Keywords are typically created for frequent search terms for which you wish to associate additional information: a definition, a (visual) best bet, a promotion, or in the context of this module, a synonym. Synonyms can be used to expand the search to include additional terms expand an acronym into its full phrase, expand a term to one or more product names, etc. In this exercise, you will gain experience defining and testing a two-way synonym. Specifically, you will create a keyword for page and associate with it a two-way synonym: document.

The main tasks for this exercise are as follows:

Define a keyword with a two-way synonym

Task 1: Define a keyword with a two-way synonym

1. In a browser window, navigate to the search site: http://intranet.contoso.com/customsearch 2. Search for document. Record the number of results here: ____________ 3. Search for page. Record the number of results here: ____________ 4. Define a two-way synonym page<->document for the home site.

Page iv

1. In a browser window, navigate to the home site: http://intranet.contoso.com 2. From the Site Actions menu, select Site Settings, then FAST Search Keywords. 3. Click Add Keyword. 4. In the Add Keyword dialog, specify the following: Keyword phrase: page Two-way synonyms: document Keyword definition: pages and documents are the same things 5. Click OK to save your definition. This will bring you back to the Manage Keywords page. 5. Search again for document and page. You should get the same number of search results for each. In addition, in both cases you should see the keyword definition above the search results. Results: After this exercise, you should have defined a keyword with a two-way synonym.

Exercise 3: Stemming
Scenario In this exercise, you will compare search results with stemming turned on and turned off in the Search Core Results web part. There are no explicit instructions for this exercise. Here are some sample searches to try. # Results Search query Document Documents Report Reports Do the results match your expectations? Note that your synonym definition from the previous exercise (page <-> document) will affect your results. Can you draw any conclusions about how synonyms and stemming interact? When you are finished with your test searches, return the stemming setting of the Search Core Results web part to its default: enabled. Results: After this exercise, you should have gained experience enabling and disabling stemming in your search front end application. Stemming enabled # Results Stemming disabled

Page v

Conclusion
This concludes the Lab exercises for the Linguistics Features in SharePoint Server 2010 for Search and FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint module.

Page vi