org.apache.lucene.analysis.ar

Class ArabicAnalyzer

java.lang.Object

org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer

org.apache.lucene.analysis.util.StopwordAnalyzerBase

org.apache.lucene.analysis.ar.ArabicAnalyzer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, AutoCloseable

public final class ArabicAnalyzer
extends StopwordAnalyzerBase

Analyzer for Arabic.

This analyzer implements light-stemming as specified by: Light Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~lballest/Pubs/arab_stem05.pdf

The analysis package contains three primary components:

• ArabicNormalizationFilter: Arabic orthographic normalization.
• ArabicStemFilter: Arabic light stemming
• Arabic stop words file: a set of default Arabic stop words.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer

Analyzer.GlobalReuseStrategy, Analyzer.PerFieldReuseStrategy, Analyzer.ReuseStrategy, Analyzer.TokenStreamComponents

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	DEFAULT_STOPWORD_FILE File containing default Arabic stopwords.

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer

GLOBAL_REUSE_STRATEGY, PER_FIELD_REUSE_STRATEGY

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ArabicAnalyzer(Version matchVersion) Builds an analyzer with the default stop words: DEFAULT_STOPWORD_FILE.
ArabicAnalyzer(Version matchVersion, CharArraySet stopwords) Builds an analyzer with the given stop words
ArabicAnalyzer(Version matchVersion, CharArraySet stopwords, CharArraySet stemExclusionSet) Builds an analyzer with the given stop word.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static CharArraySet	getDefaultStopSet() Returns an unmodifiable instance of the default stop-words set.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.util.StopwordAnalyzerBase

getStopwordSet

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer

close, getOffsetGap, getPositionIncrementGap, getReuseStrategy, tokenStream, tokenStream

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

DEFAULT_STOPWORD_FILE

public static final String DEFAULT_STOPWORD_FILE

File containing default Arabic stopwords. Default stopword list is from http://members.unine.ch/jacques.savoy/clef/index.html The stopword list is BSD-Licensed.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

ArabicAnalyzer

public ArabicAnalyzer(Version matchVersion)

Builds an analyzer with the default stop words: DEFAULT_STOPWORD_FILE.

ArabicAnalyzer

public ArabicAnalyzer(Version matchVersion,
                      CharArraySet stopwords)

Builds an analyzer with the given stop words

Parameters:

matchVersion - lucene compatibility version

stopwords - a stopword set

ArabicAnalyzer

public ArabicAnalyzer(Version matchVersion,
                      CharArraySet stopwords,
                      CharArraySet stemExclusionSet)

Builds an analyzer with the given stop word. If a none-empty stem exclusion set is provided this analyzer will add a SetKeywordMarkerFilter before ArabicStemFilter.

Parameters:

matchVersion - lucene compatibility version

stopwords - a stopword set

stemExclusionSet - a set of terms not to be stemmed

Method Detail

getDefaultStopSet

public static CharArraySet getDefaultStopSet()

Returns an unmodifiable instance of the default stop-words set.

Returns:

an unmodifiable instance of the default stop-words set.