Language Analyzers¶

Language-specific analyzers provide a convenient way to create indexes tailored to a particular language. Each language analyzer has built-in stopwords and word divisions based on that language’s usage patterns.

Atlas Search offers the following language analyzers:

`lucene.arabic`	`lucene.armenian`	`lucene.basque`	`lucene.bengali`	`lucene.brazilian`
`lucene.bulgarian`	`lucene.catalan`	`lucene.cjk`	`lucene.czech`	`lucene.danish`
`lucene.dutch`	`lucene.english`	`lucene.finnish`	`lucene.french`	`lucene.galician`
`lucene.german`	`lucene.greek`	`lucene.hindi`	`lucene.hungarian`	`lucene.indonesian`
`lucene.irish`	`lucene.italian`	`lucene.latvian`	`lucene.lithuanian`	`lucene.norwegian`
`lucene.persian`	`lucene.portuguese`	`lucene.romanian`	`lucene.russian`	`lucene.sorani`
`lucene.spanish`	`lucene.swedish`	`lucene.turkish`	`lucene.thai`

Example¶

The following example index definition specifies an index on the sujet field using the french analyzer:

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{
  "mappings": {
    "fields": {
      "sujet": {
        "type": "string",
        "analyzer": "lucene.french"
      }
    }
  }
}

Consider a collection named voitures with the following documents:

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{ "_id": 1, "sujet": "Mieux équiper nos voitures pour comprendre les causes d'un accident." }
{ "_id": 2, "sujet": "Le meilleur moment pour le faire c'est immédiatement après que vous aurez fait le plein de carburant." }

The following query uses the index on the sujet field:

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db.voitures.aggregate([
  {
     $search: {
       "term": {
         "query": "pour",
         "path": "sujet"
        }
     }
  }
])

The above query returns no results when using the french analyzer, because pour is a built-in stop word. Using the standard analyzer, the same query would return both documents.

The following query searches for the string carburant in the sujet field:

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db.voitures.aggregate([
  {
     $search: {
       "term": {
         "query": "carburant",
         "path": "sujet"
        }
     }
  }
])

The above query returns the document with "_id": 2 from the collection.

{ "_id": 2, "sujet": "Le meilleur moment pour le faire c'est immédiatement après que vous aurez fait le plein de carburant." }

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