Smart Chinese Analysis for ElasticSearch
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The Smart Chinese Analysis plugin integrates Lucene Smart Chinese analysis module into elasticsearch.

In order to install the plugin, simply run: `bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-analysis-smartcn/1.7.0`.

| Smart Chinese Analysis Plugin | elasticsearch    | Release date |
|-------------------------------|------------------|:------------:|
| 1.8.0-SNAPSHOT (master)       | 0.90.8 -> master |  2013-12-19  |
| 1.7.0                         | 0.90.6 -> 0.90.7 |  2013-11-06  |
| 1.6.0                         | 0.90.3 -> 0.90.5 |  2013-08-08  |
| 1.5.0                         | 0.90.1 -> 0.90.2 |  2013-05-30  |
| 1.4.0                         | 0.90.0           |  2013-04-29  |
| 1.3.0                         | 0.90.0           |  2013-02-26  |
| 1.2.0                         | 0.19.3 -> 0.20   |  2012-04-30  |
| 1.1.0                         | 0.19.0 -> 0.19.2 |  2012-02-07  |
| 1.0.0                         | 0.18             |  2011-12-29  |


The plugin includes the `smart_chinese` analyzer, `smartcn_sentence` tokenizer, and `smartcn_word` token filter.

License
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    This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.

    Copyright 2009-2013 Shay Banon and ElasticSearch <http://www.elasticsearch.org>

    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
    use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
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        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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