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Date Published
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Gedalyah Reback
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1745
Language
English
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Summary

Elasticsearch, a powerful search engine widely used for text analysis, offers built-in support for 36 languages, including a variety of European, Middle Eastern, and Asian languages. It utilizes analyzers, which consist of tokenizers and filters, to parse and process text data effectively. While Elasticsearch provides analyzers for many languages, the open-source community has developed additional language analyzers to extend its functionality, particularly for languages not natively supported. Examples of popular plugins recommended for use with Elasticsearch include ICU for Unicode support, Stempel for Polish stemming, and Nori for Korean. Furthermore, independent analyzers have been created to handle specific linguistic needs, such as Hebrew morphology, Arabic dialects, and Portuguese dialects, showcasing the adaptability and extensibility of Elasticsearch in handling diverse and complex language processing tasks.