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DM Smith commented on LUCENE-2747:
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Robert/Steven, I'm sorry. I fat fingered the last post. I really need to take
more care.
s/Standard/Simple/;
That is, SimpleAnalyzer is not appropriate for many languages. If it were based
upon a variation of UAX29Tokenizer, but didn't handle NUM or ALPHANUM, but WORD
instead, it would be the same type of token stream, just alpha words.
Regarding compatibility: I think the results for English would be nearly, if
not, identical. Western European would only be slightly off from identical. But
for other languages it would be an improvement.
At this point, I'm content with what you guys are doing with non-English texts.
Great job.
> Deprecate/remove language-specific tokenizers in favor of StandardTokenizer
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> Key: LUCENE-2747
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2747
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Analysis
> Affects Versions: 3.1, 4.0
> Reporter: Steven Rowe
> Fix For: 3.1, 4.0
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> Attachments: LUCENE-2747.patch, LUCENE-2747.patch
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> As of Lucene 3.1, StandardTokenizer implements UAX#29 word boundary rules to
> provide language-neutral tokenization. Lucene contains several
> language-specific tokenizers that should be replaced by UAX#29-based
> StandardTokenizer (deprecated in 3.1 and removed in 4.0). The
> language-specific *analyzers*, by contrast, should remain, because they
> contain language-specific post-tokenization filters. The language-specific
> analyzers should switch to StandardTokenizer in 3.1.
> Some usages of language-specific tokenizers will need additional work beyond
> just replacing the tokenizer in the language-specific analyzer.
> For example, PersianAnalyzer currently uses ArabicLetterTokenizer, and
> depends on the fact that this tokenizer breaks tokens on the ZWNJ character
> (zero-width non-joiner; U+200C), but in the UAX#29 word boundary rules, ZWNJ
> is not a word boundary. Robert Muir has suggested using a char filter
> converting ZWNJ to spaces prior to StandardTokenizer in the converted
> PersianAnalyzer.
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