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Kuromoji supports an option to segment text in a way more suitable for search,
by preventing long compound nouns as indexing terms.
In general 'how you segment' can be important depending on the application
(see http://nlp.stanford.edu/pubs/acl-wmt08-cws.pdf for some studies on this in chinese)
The current algorithm punishes the cost based on some parameters (SEARCH_MODE_PENALTY, SEARCH_MODE_LENGTH, etc)
for long runs of kanji.
Some questions (these can be separate future issues if any useful ideas come out):
- should these parameters continue to be static-final, or configurable?
- should POS also play a role in the algorithm (can/should we refine exactly what we decompound)?
- is the Tokenizer the best place to do this, or should we do it in a tokenfilter? or both?
with a tokenfilter, one idea would be to also preserve the original indexing term, overlapping it: e.g. ABCD -> AB, CD, ABCD(posInc=0)
from my understanding this tends to help with noun compounds in other languages, because IDF of the original term boosts 'exact' compound matches.
but does a tokenfilter provide the segmenter enough 'context' to do this properly?
Either way, I think as a start we should turn on what we have by default: its likely a very easy win.