Tokenizers

This tokenizer splits the text field into tokens, treating whitespace and punctuation as delimiters. Delimiter characters are discarded, with the following exceptions:

Note that words are split at hyphens.

The Standard Tokenizer supports Unicode standard annex UAX#29 word boundaries with the following token types: <ALPHANUM>, <NUM>, <SOUTHEAST_ASIAN>, <IDEOGRAPHIC>, and <HIRAGANA>.

Factory class: solr.StandardTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

maxTokenLength: (integer, default 255) Solr ignores tokens that exceed the number of characters specified by maxTokenLength.

Example:

In: "Please, email john.doe@foo.com by 03-09, re: m37-xq."

Out: "Please", "email", "john.doe", "foo.com", "by", "03", "09", "re", "m37", "xq"

The Classic Tokenizer preserves the same behavior as the Standard Tokenizer of Solr versions 3.1 and previous. It does not use the Unicode standard annex UAX#29 word boundary rules that the Standard Tokenizer uses. This tokenizer splits the text field into tokens, treating whitespace and punctuation as delimiters. Delimiter characters are discarded, with the following exceptions:

Factory class: solr.ClassicTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

maxTokenLength: (integer, default 255) Solr ignores tokens that exceed the number of characters specified by maxTokenLength.

Example:

In: "Please, email john.doe@foo.com by 03-09, re: m37-xq."

Out: "Please", "email", "john.doe@foo.com", "by", "03-09", "re", "m37-xq"

This tokenizer treats the entire text field as a single token.

Factory class: solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory

Arguments: None

Example:

In: "Please, email john.doe@foo.com by 03-09, re: m37-xq."

Out: "Please, email john.doe@foo.com by 03-09, re: m37-xq."

This tokenizer creates tokens from strings of contiguous letters, discarding all non-letter characters.

Factory class: solr.LetterTokenizerFactory

Arguments: None

Example:

In: "I can’t."

Out: "I", "can", "t"

Tokenizes the input stream by delimiting at non-letters and then converting all letters to lowercase. Whitespace and non-letters are discarded.

Factory class: solr.LowerCaseTokenizerFactory

Arguments: None

Example:

In: "I just *LOVE* my iPhone!"

Out: "i", "just", "love", "my", "iphone"

Reads the field text and generates n-gram tokens of sizes in the given range.

Factory class: solr.NGramTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

minGramSize: (integer, default 1) The minimum n-gram size, must be > 0.

maxGramSize: (integer, default 2) The maximum n-gram size, must be >= minGramSize.

Example:

Default behavior. Note that this tokenizer operates over the whole field. It does not break the field at whitespace. As a result, the space character is included in the encoding.

In: "hey man"

Out: "h", "e", "y", " ", "m", "a", "n", "he", "ey", "y ", " m", "ma", "an"

Example:

With an n-gram size range of 4 to 5:

In: "bicycle"

Out: "bicy", "bicyc", "icyc", "icycl", "cycl", "cycle", "ycle"

Reads the field text and generates edge n-gram tokens of sizes in the given range.

Factory class: solr.EdgeNGramTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

minGramSize: (integer, default is 1) The minimum n-gram size, must be > 0.

maxGramSize: (integer, default is 1) The maximum n-gram size, must be >= minGramSize.

Example:

Default behavior (min and max default to 1):

In: "babaloo"

Out: "b"

Example:

Edge n-gram range of 2 to 5

In: "babaloo"

Out:"ba", "bab", "baba", "babal"

This tokenizer processes multilingual text and tokenizes it appropriately based on its script attribute.

You can customize this tokenizer’s behavior by specifying per-script rule files. To add per-script rules, add a rulefiles argument, which should contain a comma-separated list of code:rulefile pairs in the following format: four-letter ISO 15924 script code, followed by a colon, then a resource path. For example, to specify rules for Latin (script code "Latn") and Cyrillic (script code "Cyrl"), you would enter Latn:my.Latin.rules.rbbi,Cyrl:my.Cyrillic.rules.rbbi.

The default configuration for solr.ICUTokenizerFactory provides UAX#29 word break rules tokenization (like solr.StandardTokenizer), but also includes custom tailorings for Hebrew (specializing handling of double and single quotation marks), for syllable tokenization for Khmer, Lao, and Myanmar, and dictionary-based word segmentation for CJK characters.

Factory class: solr.ICUTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

rulefile: a comma-separated list of code:rulefile pairs in the following format: four-letter ISO 15924 script code, followed by a colon, then a resource path.

Example:

This tokenizer creates synonyms from file path hierarchies.

Factory class: solr.PathHierarchyTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

delimiter: (character, no default) You can specify the file path delimiter and replace it with a delimiter you provide. This can be useful for working with backslash delimiters.

replace: (character, no default) Specifies the delimiter character Solr uses in the tokenized output.

Example:

In: "c:\usr\local\apache"

Out: "c:", "c:/usr", "c:/usr/local", "c:/usr/local/apache"

This tokenizer uses a Java regular expression to break the input text stream into tokens. The expression provided by the pattern argument can be interpreted either as a delimiter that separates tokens, or to match patterns that should be extracted from the text as tokens.

See the Javadocs for java.util.regex.Pattern for more information on Java regular expression syntax.

Factory class: solr.PatternTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

pattern: (Required) The regular expression, as defined by in java.util.regex.Pattern.

group: (Optional, default -1) Specifies which regex group to extract as the token(s). The value -1 means the regex should be treated as a delimiter that separates tokens. Non-negative group numbers (>= 0) indicate that character sequences matching that regex group should be converted to tokens. Group zero refers to the entire regex, groups greater than zero refer to parenthesized sub-expressions of the regex, counted from left to right.

Example:

A comma separated list. Tokens are separated by a sequence of zero or more spaces, a comma, and zero or more spaces.

In: "fee,fie, foe , fum, foo"

Out: "fee", "fie", "foe", "fum", "foo"

Example:

Extract simple, capitalized words. A sequence of at least one capital letter followed by zero or more letters of either case is extracted as a token.

In: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

Out: "Hello", "My", "Inigo", "Montoya", "You", "Prepare"

Example:

Extract part numbers which are preceded by "SKU", "Part" or "Part Number", case sensitive, with an optional semi-colon separator. Part numbers must be all numeric digits, with an optional hyphen. Regex capture groups are numbered by counting left parenthesis from left to right. Group 3 is the subexpression "[0-9-]+", which matches one or more digits or hyphens.

In: "SKU: 1234, Part Number 5678, Part: 126-987"

Out: "1234", "5678", "126-987"

This tokenizer is similar to the PatternTokenizerFactory described above, but uses Lucene RegExp pattern matching to construct distinct tokens for the input stream. The syntax is more limited than PatternTokenizerFactory, but the tokenization is quite a bit faster.

Factory class: solr.SimplePatternTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

pattern: (Required) The regular expression, as defined by in the RegExp javadocs, identifying the characters to include in tokens. The matching is greedy such that the longest token matching at a given point is created. Empty tokens are never created.

maxDeterminizedStates: (Optional, default 10000) the limit on total state count for the determined automaton computed from the regexp.

Example:

To match tokens delimited by simple whitespace characters:

This tokenizer is similar to the SimplePatternTokenizerFactory described above, but uses Lucene RegExp pattern matching to identify sequences of characters that should be used to split tokens. The syntax is more limited than PatternTokenizerFactory, but the tokenization is quite a bit faster.

Factory class: solr.SimplePatternSplitTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

pattern: (Required) The regular expression, as defined by in the RegExp javadocs, identifying the characters that should split tokens. The matching is greedy such that the longest token separator matching at a given point is matched. Empty tokens are never created.

maxDeterminizedStates: (Optional, default 10000) the limit on total state count for the determined automaton computed from the regexp.

Example:

To match tokens delimited by simple whitespace characters:

This tokenizer splits the text field into tokens, treating whitespace and punctuation as delimiters. Delimiter characters are discarded, with the following exceptions:

The UAX29 URL Email Tokenizer supports Unicode standard annex UAX#29 word boundaries with the following token types: <ALPHANUM>, <NUM>, <URL>, <EMAIL>, <SOUTHEAST_ASIAN>, <IDEOGRAPHIC>, and <HIRAGANA>.

Factory class: solr.UAX29URLEmailTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

maxTokenLength: (integer, default 255) Solr ignores tokens that exceed the number of characters specified by maxTokenLength.

Example:

In: "Visit http://accarol.com/contact.htm?from=external&a=10 or e-mail bob.cratchet@accarol.com"

Out: "Visit", "http://accarol.com/contact.htm?from=external&a=10", "or", "e", "mail", "bob.cratchet@accarol.com"

Simple tokenizer that splits the text stream on whitespace and returns sequences of non-whitespace characters as tokens. Note that any punctuation will be included in the tokens.

Factory class: solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory

Arguments:

Example:

In: "To be, or what?"

Out: "To", "be,", "or", "what?"

See OpenNLP Integration for information about using the OpenNLP Tokenizer, along with information about available OpenNLP token filters.