Using Smart Translation Search with AEM Assets using-smart-translation-search-with-aem-assets

Smart Translation Search enables cross-language search and discovery automatically across AEM content, both Assets and Pages, supporting more than 50 languages and reducing the need for manual content translation.

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I want to quickly show you - Smart Translation Search, introduced in AEM 6.4. Smart Translation Search - is a great new technology that facilitates cross - language search and discovery - automatically in AEM. Eliminating the need - for manual translation and supporting more - than 50 languages. So let me show - you what I mean. So I’ll head over - to AEM Assets and I’ll perform a full text - search for the term Running. So as you can see, I have a - number of results for running and if I click into - one of my results, we can see I have the English - term running in my metadata. I also have the term running - applied through my AEM Smart tags. It’s worth noting that Smart Tags - and Smart Translation Search are a great pair, as Smart Tags - today only supports English terms. So let’s head back to our search, - instead of the English term, let’s try the Spanish word for - running and see what we get.
Predictably we - have no results. And that’s because the Spanish term - is nowhere on any of our Assets. All our Assets are using - the English term Running. Let’s see how we can - rectify this, without actually translating - all our content. To do this, I’m going to enable - Smart Translation Search. I’ll head over to - my Web Console and I’ll configure a Spanish to - English translation for Assets. Check out below this - video for a link to the complete - setup instructions, for setting up Smart - Translation Search with AEM. We can save our changes to enable - the Spanish to English translation. Heading back to AEM, I will - search again for our Assets, using the Spanish - term for running. And as you can see, we have - a number of results for the Spanish word for - running, even though this term running is only in - English on these Assets. If I click into our Asset, - only the English term as part of this Asset - or the Asset metadata.
We can perform other - searches for Spanish words, such as hombre for man, or - the Spanish term for woman. Smart Translation Search even - supports extended characters, so we can do things like search - for the Spanish term mountain.
So as you can see, this is - a very powerful tool, that allows users of the - AEM to search for and discover Assets automatically - in various languages. The supported translations are made - available through the Apache Joshua Projects language packs. The Apache Joshua project - is an open source project and it provides over - 50 language packs, providing translations for - a variety of languages. -

AEM Smart Translation Search allows users to perform searches for content in AEM using non-English terms, to match the assets in AEM that have equivalent English terms on them.

Smart Translation Search is a perfect compliment to AEM Smart Tags which are applied to assets in English.

This video assumes AEM Smart Translation Search has been set up.

How Smart Translation Search works how-smart-translation-search-works

Smart Translation Search Flow Diagram

  1. AEM user performs a full-text search, providing a localized search term (Eg. the Spanish term for ‘man’, ‘hombre’).
  2. The Smart Translation Search, provided by the Apache Oak Machine Translation OSGi bundle, is engaged and evaluates if the provided search terms can be translated using the registered Language Packs.
  3. All translated terms from Step #2 are collected, and the query is augmented internally to include them as search terms. This augmented set of search terms if evaluated normally against AEM’s search indexes locating relevant matches.
  4. The search results that match the original term (‘hombre’) or the translated term (‘man’) are collected and returned the user as the search results.

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