org.apache.lucene.analysis.miscellaneous
Class ScandinavianFoldingFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource
      org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream
          org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter
              org.apache.lucene.analysis.miscellaneous.ScandinavianFoldingFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable

public final class ScandinavianFoldingFilter
extends TokenFilter

This filter folds Scandinavian characters åÅäæÄÆ->a and öÖøØ->o. It also discriminate against use of double vowels aa, ae, ao, oe and oo, leaving just the first one.

It's is a semantically more destructive solution than ScandinavianNormalizationFilter but can in addition help with matching raksmorgas as räksmörgås.

blåbærsyltetøj == blåbärsyltetöj == blaabaarsyltetoej == blabarsyltetoj räksmörgås == ræksmørgås == ræksmörgaos == raeksmoergaas == raksmorgas

Background: Swedish åäö are in fact the same letters as Norwegian and Danish åæø and thus interchangeable when used between these languages. They are however folded differently when people type them on a keyboard lacking these characters.

In that situation almost all Swedish people use a, a, o instead of å, ä, ö.

Norwegians and Danes on the other hand usually type aa, ae and oe instead of å, æ and ø. Some do however use a, a, o, oo, ao and sometimes permutations of everything above.

This filter solves that mismatch problem, but might also cause new.

See Also:

ScandinavianNormalizationFilter

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource

AttributeSource.AttributeFactory, AttributeSource.State

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter

input

Constructor Summary

ScandinavianFoldingFilter(TokenStream input)

Method Summary

boolean

incrementToken()

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter

close, end, reset

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource

addAttribute, addAttributeImpl, captureState, clearAttributes, cloneAttributes, copyTo, equals, getAttribute, getAttributeClassesIterator, getAttributeFactory, getAttributeImplsIterator, hasAttribute, hasAttributes, hashCode, reflectAsString, reflectWith, restoreState, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ScandinavianFoldingFilter

public ScandinavianFoldingFilter(TokenStream input)

Method Detail

incrementToken

public boolean incrementToken()
                       throws IOException

Specified by:

incrementToken in class TokenStream

Throws:

IOException