Phonetic Analysis for Elasticsearch

The Phonetic Analysis plugin integrates phonetic token filter analysis with elasticsearch.

In order to install the plugin, simply run:

bin/plugin install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-analysis-phonetic/2.5.0

elasticsearch	Phonetic Analysis Plugin	Docs
master	Build from source	See below
es-1.x	Build from source	2.6.0-SNAPSHOT
es-1.5	2.5.0	2.5.0
es-1.4	Build from source	2.4.3-SNAPSHOT
< 1.4.5	2.4.2	2.4.2
< 1.4.3	2.4.1	2.4.1
es-1.3	2.3.0	2.3.0
es-1.2	2.2.0	2.2.0
es-1.1	2.1.0	2.1.0
es-1.0	2.0.0	2.0.0
es-0.90	1.8.0	1.8.0

To build a SNAPSHOT version, you need to build it with Maven:

mvn clean install
plugin --install analysis-phonetic \
       --url file:target/releases/elasticsearch-analysis-phonetic-X.X.X-SNAPSHOT.zip

User guide

A phonetic token filter that can be configured with different encoder types: metaphone, doublemetaphone, soundex, refinedsoundex, caverphone1, caverphone2, cologne, nysiis, koelnerphonetik, haasephonetik, beidermorse

The replace parameter (defaults to true) controls if the token processed should be replaced with the encoded one (set it to true), or added (set it to false).

{
    "index" : {
        "analysis" : {
            "analyzer" : {
                "my_analyzer" : {
                    "tokenizer" : "standard",
                    "filter" : ["standard", "lowercase", "my_metaphone"]
                }
            },
            "filter" : {
                "my_metaphone" : {
                    "type" : "phonetic",
                    "encoder" : "metaphone",
                    "replace" : false
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Note that beidermorse does not support replace parameter.

Questions

If you have questions or comments please use the mailing list instead of Github Issues tracker.

License

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

Copyright 2009-2014 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

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