[LUCENE-9043] Currently Lucene doesn't have an analyzer for Sinhala. We have built analyzer which consist of language dependent tokenizer, stemming algorithm and list of stop words.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 8.3
• Fix Version/s: 5.5.6
• Component/s: modules/analysis
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: pavithra kariyawasam
• Created: 13/Nov/19 06:19
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 15:52

Description

This component is developed based on three main researches.

Sinhala Analyzer, as it word implies it is an enhanced software library to analyze documents which are written in Sinhala language. Sinhala Analyzer has implemented by performing Sinhala morphological analysis. Tokenizing the document content precisely, Removing stopwords accordingly and converting the terms to its base/root form accurately are the main three functionalities of Sinhala Analyzer.

Issue Links

• relates to: LUCENE-9044 Currently Lucene doesn't have an analyzer for Sinhala. We have built analyzer which consist of language dependent tokenizer, stemming algorithm and list of stop words.