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## Summary - Add language-aware Snowball stemmer to `RagTokenizer` supporting 16 languages (Dutch, German, French, Spanish, etc.) - Thread the KB `language` parameter through the full tokenization pipeline (14 parser modules + task executor) - Add Dutch to the frontend language lists and cross-language form ## Problem RAGFlow uses the English Porter stemmer + WordNet lemmatizer for **all** BM25 tokenization, regardless of the knowledge base language setting. This produces incorrect stems for non-English text. For example: | Dutch word | Dutch stemmer | English Porter | |---|---|---| | documenten | document | documenten (unchanged!) | | gebruikers | gebruiker | gebruik (over-stemmed) | | instellingen | instell | instellingen (unchanged!) | This degrades BM25 recall for any non-English knowledge base. ## Solution NLTK already ships Snowball stemmers for 16 languages. This PR: 1. **`rag/nlp/rag_tokenizer.py`**: Overrides `tokenize()` with `set_language()` and `_normalize_token()` that selects the correct NLTK Snowball stemmer. Falls back to Porter for unmapped languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. — these use character-based tokenization anyway). 2. **`rag/nlp/__init__.py`** + **14 `rag/app/*.py` parsers** + **`rag/svr/task_executor.py`**: Threads the `language` parameter through `tokenize()`, `tokenize_chunks()`, `tokenize_table()`, and all callers. 3. **Frontend**: Adds Dutch (`Nederlands`) to `LanguageList`, `LanguageMap`, `LanguageAbbreviationMap`, `LanguageTranslationMap`, cross-language form field, and `en.ts` locale. ## Backward Compatibility - Default language is `"English"`, preserving existing behavior for all current users - Languages without a Snowball stemmer mapping fall back to Porter (no change) - No new dependencies — NLTK Snowball is already bundled