Add custom analyzers to string fields in an Azure AI Search index
A custom analyzer is a user-defined combination of one tokenizer, one or more token filters, and one or more character filters. A custom analyzer is specified within a search index, and then referenced by name on field definitions that require custom analysis. A custom analyzer is invoked on a per-field basis. Attributes on the field will determine whether it's used for indexing, queries, or both.
In a custom analyzer, character filters prepare the input text before it's processed by the tokenizer (for example, removing markup). Next, the tokenizer breaks text into tokens. Finally, token filters modify the tokens emitted by the tokenizer. For concepts and examples, see Analyzers in Azure AI Search.
Why use a custom analyzer?
A custom analyzer gives you control over the process of converting text into indexable and searchable tokens by allowing you to choose which types of analysis or filtering to invoke, and the order in which they occur.
Create and assign a custom analyzer if none of default (Standard Lucence), built-in, or language analyzers are sufficient for your needs. You might also create a custom analyzer if you want to use a built-in analyzer with custom options. For example, if you wanted to change the maxTokenLength on Standard, you would create a custom analyzer, with a user-defined name, to set that option.
Scenarios where custom analyzers can be helpful include:
Using character filters to remove HTML markup before text inputs are tokenized, or replace certain characters or symbols.
Phonetic search. Add a phonetic filter to enable searching based on how a word sounds, not how it’s spelled.
Disable lexical analysis. Use the Keyword analyzer to create searchable fields that aren't analyzed.
Fast prefix/suffix search. Add the Edge N-gram token filter to index prefixes of words to enable fast prefix matching. Combine it with the Reverse token filter to do suffix matching.
Custom tokenization. For example, use the Whitespace tokenizer to break sentences into tokens using whitespace as a delimiter
ASCII folding. Add the Standard ASCII folding filter to normalize diacritics like ö or ê in search terms.
Note
Custom analyzers aren't exposed in the Azure portal. The only way to add a custom analyzer is through code that defines an index.
Create a custom analyzer
To create a custom analyzer, specify it in the analyzers
section of an index at design time, and then reference it on searchable, Edm.String
fields using either the analyzer
property, or the indexAnalyzer
and searchAnalyzer
pair.
An analyzer definition includes a name, type, one or more character filters, a maximum of one tokenizer, and one or more token filters for post-tokenization processing. Character filters are applied before tokenization. Token filters and character filters are applied from left to right.
Names in a custom analyzer must be unique and can't be the same as any of the built-in analyzers, tokenizers, token filters, or characters filters. Names consist of letters, digits, spaces, dashes or underscores. Names must start and end with plain text characters. Names must be under 128 characters in length.
Type must be #Microsoft.Azure.Search.CustomAnalyzer.
charFilters
can be one or more filters from Character Filters, processed before tokenization, in the order provided. Some character filters have options, which can be set in acharFilters
section. Character filters are optional.tokenizer
is exactly one Tokenizer. A value is required. If you need more than one tokenizer, you can create multiple custom analyzers and assign them on a field-by-field basis in your index schema.tokenFilters
can be one or more filters from Token Filters, processed after tokenization, in the order provided. For token filters that have options, add atokenFilter
section to specify the configuration. Token filters are optional.
Analyzers must not produce tokens longer than 300 characters, or indexing will fail. To trim long token or to exclude them, use the TruncateTokenFilter and the LengthTokenFilter respectively. See Token filters for reference.
"analyzers":(optional)[
{
"name":"name of analyzer",
"@odata.type":"#Microsoft.Azure.Search.CustomAnalyzer",
"charFilters":[
"char_filter_name_1",
"char_filter_name_2"
],
"tokenizer":"tokenizer_name",
"tokenFilters":[
"token_filter_name_1",
"token_filter_name_2"
]
},
{
"name":"name of analyzer",
"@odata.type":"#analyzer_type",
"option1":value1,
"option2":value2,
...
}
],
"charFilters":(optional)[
{
"name":"char_filter_name",
"@odata.type":"#char_filter_type",
"option1":value1,
"option2":value2,
...
}
],
"tokenizers":(optional)[
{
"name":"tokenizer_name",
"@odata.type":"#tokenizer_type",
"option1":value1,
"option2":value2,
...
}
],
"tokenFilters":(optional)[
{
"name":"token_filter_name",
"@odata.type":"#token_filter_type",
"option1":value1,
"option2":value2,
...
}
]
Within an index definition, you can place this section anywhere in the body of a create index request but usually it goes at the end:
{
"name": "name_of_index",
"fields": [ ],
"suggesters": [ ],
"scoringProfiles": [ ],
"defaultScoringProfile": (optional) "...",
"corsOptions": (optional) { },
"analyzers":(optional)[ ],
"charFilters":(optional)[ ],
"tokenizers":(optional)[ ],
"tokenFilters":(optional)[ ]
}
The analyzer definition is a part of the larger index. Definitions for char filters, tokenizers, and token filters are added to the index only if you're setting custom options. To use an existing filter or tokenizer as-is, specify it by name in the analyzer definition. For more information, see Create Index (REST). For more examples, see Add analyzers in Azure AI Search.
Test custom analyzers
You can use the Test Analyzer (REST) to see how an analyzer breaks given text into tokens.
Request
POST https://[search service name].search.windows.net/indexes/[index name]/analyze?api-version=[api-version]
Content-Type: application/json
api-key: [admin key]
{
"analyzer":"my_analyzer",
"text": "Vis-à-vis means Opposite"
}
Response
{
"tokens": [
{
"token": "vis_a_vis",
"startOffset": 0,
"endOffset": 9,
"position": 0
},
{
"token": "vis_à_vis",
"startOffset": 0,
"endOffset": 9,
"position": 0
},
{
"token": "means",
"startOffset": 10,
"endOffset": 15,
"position": 1
},
{
"token": "opposite",
"startOffset": 16,
"endOffset": 24,
"position": 2
}
]
}
Update custom analyzers
Once an analyzer, a tokenizer, a token filter, or a character filter is defined, it can't be modified. New ones can be added to an existing index only if the allowIndexDowntime
flag is set to true in the index update request:
PUT https://[search service name].search.windows.net/indexes/[index name]?api-version=[api-version]&allowIndexDowntime=true
This operation takes your index offline for at least a few seconds, causing your indexing and query requests to fail. Performance and write availability of the index can be impaired for several minutes after the index is updated, or longer for very large indexes, but these effects are temporary and eventually resolve on their own.
Built-in analyzers
If you want to use a built-in analyzer with custom options, creating a custom analyzer is the mechanism by which you specify those options. In contrast, to use a built-in analyzer as-is, you simply need to reference it by name in the field definition.
analyzer_name | analyzer_type 1 | Description and Options |
---|---|---|
keyword | (type applies only when options are available) | Treats the entire content of a field as a single token. This is useful for data like zip codes, IDs, and some product names. |
pattern | PatternAnalyzer | Flexibly separates text into terms via a regular expression pattern. Options lowercase (type: bool) - Determines whether terms are lowercased. The default is true. pattern (type: string) - A regular expression pattern to match token separators. The default is \W+ , which matches non-word characters. flags (type: string) - Regular expression flags. The default is an empty string. Allowed values: CANON_EQ, CASE_INSENSITIVE, COMMENTS, DOTALL, LITERAL, MULTILINE, UNICODE_CASE, UNIX_LINES stopwords (type: string array) - A list of stopwords. The default is an empty list. |
simple | (type applies only when options are available) | Divides text at non-letters and converts them to lower case. |
standard (Also referred to as standard.lucene) |
StandardAnalyzer | Standard Lucene analyzer, composed of the standard tokenizer, lowercase filter, and stop filter. Options maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length. The default is 255. Tokens longer than the maximum length are split. Maximum token length that can be used is 300 characters. stopwords (type: string array) - A list of stopwords. The default is an empty list. |
standardasciifolding.lucene | (type applies only when options are available) | Standard analyzer with Ascii folding filter. |
stop | StopAnalyzer | Divides text at non-letters, applies the lowercase and stopword token filters. Options stopwords (type: string array) - A list of stopwords. The default is a predefined list for English. |
whitespace | (type applies only when options are available) | An analyzer that uses the whitespace tokenizer. Tokens that are longer than 255 characters are split. |
1 Analyzer Types are always prefixed in code with #Microsoft.Azure.Search
such that PatternAnalyzer
would actually be specified as #Microsoft.Azure.Search.PatternAnalyzer
. We removed the prefix for brevity, but the prefix is required in your code.
The analyzer_type is only provided for analyzers that can be customized. If there are no options, as is the case with the keyword analyzer, there's no associated #Microsoft.Azure.Search type.
Character filters
Character filters add processing before a string reaches the tokenizer.
Azure AI Search supports character filters in the following list. More information about each one can be found in the Lucene API reference.
char_filter_name | char_filter_type 1 | Description and Options |
---|---|---|
html_strip | (type applies only when options are available) | A char filter that attempts to strip out HTML constructs. |
mapping | MappingCharFilter | A char filter that applies mappings defined with the mappings option. Matching is greedy (longest pattern matching at a given point wins). Replacement is allowed to be the empty string. Options mappings (type: string array) - A list of mappings of the following format: a=>b (all occurrences of the character a are replaced with character b ). Required. |
pattern_replace | PatternReplaceCharFilter | A char filter that replaces characters in the input string. It uses a regular expression to identify character sequences to preserve and a replacement pattern to identify characters to replace. For example, input text = aa bb aa bb , pattern=(aa)\\\s+(bb) replacement=$1#$2 , result = aa#bb aa#bb . Options pattern (type: string) - Required. replacement (type: string) - Required. |
1 Char Filter Types are always prefixed in code with #Microsoft.Azure.Search
such that MappingCharFilter
would actually be specified as #Microsoft.Azure.Search.MappingCharFilter
. We removed the prefix to reduce the width of the table, but please remember to include it in your code. Notice that char_filter_type is only provided for filters that can be customized. If there are no options, as is the case with html_strip, there's no associated #Microsoft.Azure.Search type.
Tokenizers
A tokenizer divides continuous text into a sequence of tokens, such as breaking a sentence into words, or a word into root forms.
Azure AI Search supports tokenizers in the following list. More information about each one can be found in the Lucene API reference.
tokenizer_name | tokenizer_type 1 | Description and Options |
---|---|---|
classic | ClassicTokenizer | Grammar based tokenizer that is suitable for processing most European-language documents. Options maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length. Default: 255, maximum: 300. Tokens longer than the maximum length are split. |
edgeNGram | EdgeNGramTokenizer | Tokenizes the input from an edge into n-grams of given size(s). Options minGram (type: int) - Default: 1, maximum: 300. maxGram (type: int) - Default: 2, maximum: 300. Must be greater than minGram. tokenChars (type: string array) - Character classes to keep in the tokens. Allowed values: letter , digit , whitespace , punctuation , symbol . Defaults to an empty array - keeps all characters. |
keyword_v2 | KeywordTokenizerV2 | Emits the entire input as a single token. Options maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length. Default: 256, maximum: 300. Tokens longer than the maximum length are split. |
letter | (type applies only when options are available) | Divides text at non-letters. Tokens that are longer than 255 characters are split. |
lowercase | (type applies only when options are available) | Divides text at non-letters and converts them to lower case. Tokens that are longer than 255 characters are split. |
microsoft_language_tokenizer | MicrosoftLanguageTokenizer | Divides text using language-specific rules. Options maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length, default: 255, maximum: 300. Tokens longer than the maximum length are split. Tokens longer than 300 characters are first split into tokens of length 300 and then each of those tokens is split based on the maxTokenLength set. isSearchTokenizer (type: bool) - Set to true if used as the search tokenizer, set to false if used as the indexing tokenizer. language (type: string) - Language to use, default english . Allowed values include: bangla , bulgarian , catalan , chineseSimplified , chineseTraditional , croatian , czech , danish , dutch , english , french , german , greek , gujarati , hindi , icelandic , indonesian , italian , japanese , kannada , korean , malay , malayalam , marathi , norwegianBokmaal , polish , portuguese , portugueseBrazilian , punjabi , romanian , russian , serbianCyrillic , serbianLatin , slovenian , spanish , swedish , tamil , telugu , thai , ukrainian , urdu , vietnamese |
microsoft_language_stemming_tokenizer | MicrosoftLanguageStemmingTokenizer | Divides text using language-specific rules and reduces words to their base forms. This tokenizer performs lemmatization. Options maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length, default: 255, maximum: 300. Tokens longer than the maximum length are split. Tokens longer than 300 characters are first split into tokens of length 300 and then each of those tokens is split based on the maxTokenLength set. isSearchTokenizer (type: bool) - Set to true if used as the search tokenizer, set to false if used as the indexing tokenizer. language (type: string) - Language to use, default english . Allowed values include: arabic , bangla , bulgarian , catalan , croatian , czech , danish , dutch , english , estonian , finnish , french , german , greek , gujarati , hebrew , hindi , hungarian , icelandic , indonesian , italian , kannada , latvian , lithuanian , malay , malayalam , marathi , norwegianBokmaal , polish , portuguese , portugueseBrazilian , punjabi , romanian , russian , serbianCyrillic , serbianLatin , slovak , slovenian , spanish , swedish , tamil , telugu , turkish , ukrainian , urdu |
nGram | NGramTokenizer | Tokenizes the input into n-grams of the given size(s). Options minGram (type: int) - Default: 1, maximum: 300. maxGram (type: int) - Default: 2, maximum: 300. Must be greater than minGram. tokenChars (type: string array) - Character classes to keep in the tokens. Allowed values: letter , digit , whitespace , punctuation , symbol . Defaults to an empty array - keeps all characters. |
path_hierarchy_v2 | PathHierarchyTokenizerV2 | Tokenizer for path-like hierarchies. Options delimiter (type: string) - Default: '/. replacement (type: string) - If set, replaces the delimiter character. Default same as the value of delimiter. maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length. Default: 300, maximum: 300. Paths longer than maxTokenLength are ignored. reverse (type: bool) - If true, generates token in reverse order. Default: false. skip (type: bool) - Initial tokens to skip. The default is 0. |
pattern | PatternTokenizer | This tokenizer uses regex pattern matching to construct distinct tokens. Options pattern (type: string) - Regular expression pattern to match token separators. The default is \W+ , which matches non-word characters. flags (type: string) - Regular expression flags. The default is an empty string. Allowed values: CANON_EQ, CASE_INSENSITIVE, COMMENTS, DOTALL, LITERAL, MULTILINE, UNICODE_CASE, UNIX_LINES group (type: int) - Which group to extract into tokens. The default is -1 (split). |
standard_v2 | StandardTokenizerV2 | Breaks text following the Unicode Text Segmentation rules. Options maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length. Default: 255, maximum: 300. Tokens longer than the maximum length are split. |
uax_url_email | UaxUrlEmailTokenizer | Tokenizes urls and emails as one token. Options maxTokenLength (type: int) - The maximum token length. Default: 255, maximum: 300. Tokens longer than the maximum length are split. |
whitespace | (type applies only when options are available) | Divides text at whitespace. Tokens that are longer than 255 characters are split. |
1 Tokenizer Types are always prefixed in code with #Microsoft.Azure.Search
such that ClassicTokenizer
would actually be specified as #Microsoft.Azure.Search.ClassicTokenizer
. We removed the prefix to reduce the width of the table, but please remember to include it in your code. Notice that tokenizer_type is only provided for tokenizers that can be customized. If there are no options, as is the case with the letter tokenizer, there's no associated #Microsoft.Azure.Search type.
Token filters
A token filter is used to filter out or modify the tokens generated by a tokenizer. For example, you can specify a lowercase filter that converts all characters to lowercase. You can have multiple token filters in a custom analyzer. Token filters run in the order in which they're listed.
In the table below, the token filters that are implemented using Apache Lucene are linked to the Lucene API documentation.
token_filter_name | token_filter_type 1 | Description and Options |
---|---|---|
arabic_normalization | (type applies only when options are available) | A token filter that applies the Arabic normalizer to normalize the orthography. |
apostrophe | (type applies only when options are available) | Strips all characters after an apostrophe (including the apostrophe itself). |
asciifolding | AsciiFoldingTokenFilter | Converts alphabetic, numeric, and symbolic Unicode characters which aren't in the first 127 ASCII characters (the Basic Latin Unicode block) into their ASCII equivalents, if one exists.Options preserveOriginal (type: bool) - If true, the original token is kept. The default is false. |
cjk_bigram | CjkBigramTokenFilter | Forms bigrams of CJK terms that are generated from StandardTokenizer. Options ignoreScripts (type: string array) - Scripts to ignore. Allowed values include: han , hiragana , katakana , hangul . The default is an empty list.outputUnigrams (type: bool) - Set to true if you always want to output both unigrams and bigrams. The default is false. |
cjk_width | (type applies only when options are available) | Normalizes CJK width differences. Folds full width ASCII variants into the equivalent basic latin and half-width Katakana variants into the equivalent kana. |
classic | (type applies only when options are available) | Removes the English possessives, and dots from acronyms. |
common_grams | CommonGramTokenFilter | Construct bigrams for frequently occurring terms while indexing. Single terms are still indexed too, with bigrams overlaid. Options commonWords (type: string array) - The set of common words. The default is an empty list. Required. ignoreCase (type: bool) - If true, matching is case insensitive. The default is false. queryMode (type: bool) - Generates bigrams then removes common words and single terms followed by a common word. The default is false. |
dictionary_decompounder | DictionaryDecompounderTokenFilter | Decomposes compound words found in many Germanic languages. Options wordList (type: string array) - The list of words to match against. The default is an empty list. Required. minWordSize (type: int) - Only words longer than this will be processed. The default is 5. minSubwordSize (type: int) - Only subwords longer than this will be outputted. The default is 2. maxSubwordSize (type: int) - Only subwords shorter than this will be outputted. The default is 15. onlyLongestMatch (type: bool) - Add only the longest matching subword to output. The default is false. |
edgeNGram_v2 | EdgeNGramTokenFilterV2 | Generates n-grams of the given size(s) from starting from the front or the back of an input token. Options minGram (type: int) - Default: 1, maximum: 300. maxGram (type: int) - Default: 2, maximum 300. Must be greater than minGram. side (type: string) - Specifies which side of the input the n-gram should be generated from. Allowed values: front , back |
elision | ElisionTokenFilter | Removes elisions. For example, l'avion (the plane) is converted to avion (plane).Options articles (type: string array) - A set of articles to remove. The default is an empty list. If there's no list of articles set, by default all French articles are removed. |
german_normalization | (type applies only when options are available) | Normalizes German characters according to the heuristics of the German2 snowball algorithm . |
hindi_normalization | (type applies only when options are available) | Normalizes text in Hindi to remove some differences in spelling variations. |
indic_normalization | IndicNormalizationTokenFilter | Normalizes the Unicode representation of text in Indian languages. |
keep | KeepTokenFilter | A token filter that only keeps tokens with text contained in specified list of words. Options keepWords (type: string array) - A list of words to keep. The default is an empty list. Required. keepWordsCase (type: bool) - If true, lower case all words first. The default is false. |
keyword_marker | KeywordMarkerTokenFilter | Marks terms as keywords. Options keywords (type: string array) - A list of words to mark as keywords. The default is an empty list. Required. ignoreCase (type: bool) - If true, lower case all words first. The default is false. |
keyword_repeat | (type applies only when options are available) | Emits each incoming token twice once as keyword and once as non-keyword. |
kstem | (type applies only when options are available) | A high-performance kstem filter for English. |
length | LengthTokenFilter | Removes words that are too long or too short. Options min (type: int) - The minimum number. Default: 0, maximum: 300. max (type: int) - The maximum number. Default: 300, maximum: 300. |
limit | Microsoft.Azure.Search.LimitTokenFilter | Limits the number of tokens while indexing. Options maxTokenCount (type: int) - Max number of tokens to produce. The default is 1. consumeAllTokens (type: bool) - Whether all tokens from the input must be consumed even if maxTokenCount is reached. The default is false. |
lowercase | (type applies only when options are available) | Normalizes token text to lower case. |
nGram_v2 | NGramTokenFilterV2 | Generates n-grams of the given size(s). Options minGram (type: int) - Default: 1, maximum: 300. maxGram (type: int) - Default: 2, maximum 300. Must be greater than minGram. |
pattern_capture | PatternCaptureTokenFilter | Uses Java regexes to emit multiple tokens, one for each capture group in one or more patterns. Options patterns (type: string array) - A list of patterns to match against each token. Required. preserveOriginal (type: bool) - Set to true to return the original token even if one of the patterns matches, default: true |
pattern_replace | PatternReplaceTokenFilter | A token filter which applies a pattern to each token in the stream, replacing match occurrences with the specified replacement string. Options pattern (type: string) - Required. replacement (type: string) - Required. |
persian_normalization | (type applies only when options are available) | Applies normalization for Persian. |
phonetic | PhoneticTokenFilter | Create tokens for phonetic matches. Options encoder (type: string) - Phonetic encoder to use. Allowed values include: metaphone , doubleMetaphone , soundex , refinedSoundex , caverphone1 , caverphone2 , cologne , nysiis , koelnerPhonetik , haasePhonetik , beiderMorse . Default: metaphone . Default is metaphone.See encoder for more information. replace (type: bool) - True if encoded tokens should replace original tokens, false if they should be added as synonyms. The default is true. |
porter_stem | (type applies only when options are available) | Transforms the token stream as per the Porter stemming algorithm. |
reverse | (type applies only when options are available) | Reverses the token string. |
scandinavian_normalization | (type applies only when options are available) | Normalizes use of the interchangeable Scandinavian characters. |
scandinavian_folding | (type applies only when options are available) | Folds Scandinavian characters åÅäæÄÆ into a and öÖøØ into o . It also discriminates against use of double vowels aa , ae , ao , oe and oo , leaving just the first one. |
shingle | ShingleTokenFilter | Creates combinations of tokens as a single token. Options maxShingleSize (type: int) - Defaults to 2. minShingleSize (type: int) - Defaults to 2. outputUnigrams (type: bool) - if true, the output stream contains the input tokens (unigrams) as well as shingles. The default is true. outputUnigramsIfNoShingles (type: bool) - If true, override the behavior of outputUnigrams==false for those times when no shingles are available. The default is false. tokenSeparator (type: string) - The string to use when joining adjacent tokens to form a shingle. The default is a single empty space . filterToken (type: string) - The string to insert for each position for which there is no token. The default is _ . |
snowball | SnowballTokenFilter | Snowball Token Filter. Options language (type: string) - Allowed values include: armenian , basque , catalan , danish , dutch , english , finnish , french , german , german2 , hungarian , italian , kp , lovins , norwegian , porter , portuguese , romanian , russian , spanish , swedish , turkish |
sorani_normalization | SoraniNormalizationTokenFilter | Normalizes the Unicode representation of Sorani text.Options None. |
stemmer | StemmerTokenFilter | Language-specific stemming filter. Options language (type: string) - Allowed values include: - arabic - armenian - basque - brazilian - bulgarian - catalan - czech - danish - dutch - dutchKp - english - lightEnglish - minimalEnglish - possessiveEnglish - porter2 - lovins - finnish - lightFinnish - french - lightFrench - minimalFrench - galician - minimalGalician - german - german2 - lightGerman - minimalGerman - greek - hindi - hungarian - lightHungarian - indonesian - irish - italian - lightItalian - sorani - latvian - norwegian - lightNorwegian - minimalNorwegian - lightNynorsk - minimalNynorsk - portuguese - lightPortuguese - minimalPortuguese - portugueseRslp - romanian - russian - lightRussian - spanish - lightSpanish - swedish - lightSwedish - turkish |
stemmer_override | StemmerOverrideTokenFilter | Any dictionary-Stemmed terms are marked as keywords, which prevents stemming down the chain. Must be placed before any stemming filters. Options rules (type: string array) - Stemming rules in the following format word => stem for example ran => run . The default is an empty list. Required. |
stopwords | StopwordsTokenFilter | Removes stop words from a token stream. By default, the filter uses a predefined stop word list for English. Options stopwords (type: string array) - A list of stopwords. Can't be specified if a stopwordsList is specified. stopwordsList (type: string) - A predefined list of stopwords. Can't be specified if stopwords is specified. Allowed values include:arabic , armenian , basque , brazilian , bulgarian , catalan , czech , danish , dutch , english , finnish , french , galician , german , greek , hindi , hungarian , indonesian , irish , italian , latvian , norwegian , persian , portuguese , romanian , russian , sorani , spanish , swedish , thai , turkish , default: english . Can't be specified if stopwords is specified. ignoreCase (type: bool) - If true, all words are lower cased first. The default is false. removeTrailing (type: bool) - If true, ignore the last search term if it's a stop word. The default is true. |
synonym | SynonymTokenFilter | Matches single or multi word synonyms in a token stream. Options synonyms (type: string array) - Required. List of synonyms in one of the following two formats: -incredible, unbelievable, fabulous => amazing - all terms on the left side of => symbol are replaced with all terms on its right side. -incredible, unbelievable, fabulous, amazing - A comma-separated list of equivalent words. Set the expand option to change how this list is interpreted. ignoreCase (type: bool) - Case-folds input for matching. The default is false. expand (type: bool) - If true, all words in the list of synonyms (if => notation is not used) map to one another. The following list: incredible, unbelievable, fabulous, amazing is equivalent to: incredible, unbelievable, fabulous, amazing => incredible, unbelievable, fabulous, amazing - If false, the following list: incredible, unbelievable, fabulous, amazing are equivalent to: incredible, unbelievable, fabulous, amazing => incredible. |
trim | (type applies only when options are available) | Trims leading and trailing whitespace from tokens. |
truncate | TruncateTokenFilter | Truncates the terms into a specific length. Options length (type: int) - Default: 300, maximum: 300. Required. |
unique | UniqueTokenFilter | Filters out tokens with same text as the previous token. Options onlyOnSamePosition (type: bool) - If set, remove duplicates only at the same position. The default is true. |
uppercase | (type applies only when options are available) | Normalizes token text to upper case. |
word_delimiter | WordDelimiterTokenFilter | Splits words into subwords and performs optional transformations on subword groups. Options generateWordParts (type: bool) - Causes parts of words to be generated, for example AzureSearch becomes Azure Search . The default is true.generateNumberParts (type: bool) - Causes number subwords to be generated. The default is true. catenateWords (type: bool) - Causes maximum runs of word parts to be catenated, for example Azure-Search becomes AzureSearch . The default is false.catenateNumbers (type: bool) - Causes maximum runs of number parts to be catenated, for example 1-2 becomes 12 . The default is false.catenateAll (type: bool) - Causes all subword parts to be catenated, e.g Azure-Search-1 becomes AzureSearch1 . The default is false.splitOnCaseChange (type: bool) - If true, splits words on caseChange, for example AzureSearch becomes Azure Search . The default is true.preserveOriginal - Causes original words to be preserved and added to the subword list. The default is false. splitOnNumerics (type: bool) - If true, splits on numbers, for example Azure1Search becomes Azure 1 Search . The default is true.stemEnglishPossessive (type: bool) - Causes trailing 's to be removed for each subword. The default is true.protectedWords (type: string array) - Tokens to protect from being delimited. The default is an empty list. |
1 Token Filter Types are always prefixed in code with #Microsoft.Azure.Search
such that ArabicNormalizationTokenFilter
would actually be specified as #Microsoft.Azure.Search.ArabicNormalizationTokenFilter
. We removed the prefix to reduce the width of the table, but please remember to include it in your code.