FrenchAnalyzer

Optimized analyzer for French text with elision and stemming support.

Import

import FrenchAnalyzer from 'dynamosearch/analyzers/FrenchAnalyzer';

Constructor

new FrenchAnalyzer(options?: FrenchAnalyzerOptions)

Parameters

• stopWords ('_french_' | '_none_' | string[], optional) - Stop words to filter (default: '_french_')

Pipeline

• CharFilters: None
• Tokenizer: StandardTokenizer
• Filters: LowerCaseFilter, ElisionFilter, StopFilter, SnowballFilter (French)

Example

const analyzer = new FrenchAnalyzer();
const tokens = await analyzer.analyze("L'analyse du texte français");
// Handles French elisions (l', d') and applies French stemming

Behavior

• Removes French elisions (l', d', qu', etc.)
• Converts to lowercase
• Removes French stop words
• Applies Snowball French stemming algorithm
• Handles French-specific linguistic features

Best For

• French text search
• Handling French elisions
• French word stemming
• Improving search recall for French content

See Also

• EnglishAnalyzer - For English text
• SpanishAnalyzer - For Spanish text
• StandardAnalyzer - For general text