elasticsearch/docs/reference/analysis/analyzers/standard-analyzer.asciidoc

[[analysis-standard-analyzer]]
=== Standard Analyzer

The `standard` analyzer is the default analyzer which is used if none is
specified. It provides grammar based tokenization (based on the Unicode Text
Segmentation algorithm, as specified in
http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/[Unicode Standard Annex #29]) and works well
for most languages.

[float]
=== Example output

[source,js]
---------------------------
POST _analyze
{
  "analyzer": "standard",
  "text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
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// CONSOLE

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[source,console-result]
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{
  "tokens": [
    {
      "token": "the",
      "start_offset": 0,
      "end_offset": 3,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 0
    },
    {
      "token": "2",
      "start_offset": 4,
      "end_offset": 5,
      "type": "<NUM>",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "token": "quick",
      "start_offset": 6,
      "end_offset": 11,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "token": "brown",
      "start_offset": 12,
      "end_offset": 17,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "token": "foxes",
      "start_offset": 18,
      "end_offset": 23,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 4
    },
    {
      "token": "jumped",
      "start_offset": 24,
      "end_offset": 30,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 5
    },
    {
      "token": "over",
      "start_offset": 31,
      "end_offset": 35,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 6
    },
    {
      "token": "the",
      "start_offset": 36,
      "end_offset": 39,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 7
    },
    {
      "token": "lazy",
      "start_offset": 40,
      "end_offset": 44,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 8
    },
    {
      "token": "dog's",
      "start_offset": 45,
      "end_offset": 50,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 9
    },
    {
      "token": "bone",
      "start_offset": 51,
      "end_offset": 55,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 10
    }
  ]
}
----------------------------

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The above sentence would produce the following terms:

[source,text]
---------------------------
[ the, 2, quick, brown, foxes, jumped, over, the, lazy, dog's, bone ]
---------------------------

[float]
=== Configuration

The `standard` analyzer accepts the following parameters:

[horizontal]
`max_token_length`::

    The maximum token length. If a token is seen that exceeds this length then
    it is split at `max_token_length` intervals. Defaults to `255`.

`stopwords`::

    A pre-defined stop words list like `_english_` or an array  containing a
    list of stop words.  Defaults to `_none_`.

`stopwords_path`::

    The path to a file containing stop words.

See the <<analysis-stop-tokenfilter,Stop Token Filter>> for more information
about stop word configuration.


[float]
=== Example configuration

In this example, we configure the `standard` analyzer to have a
`max_token_length` of 5 (for demonstration purposes), and to use the
pre-defined list of English stop words:

[source,js]
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PUT my_index
{
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "my_english_analyzer": {
          "type": "standard",
          "max_token_length": 5,
          "stopwords": "_english_"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

POST my_index/_analyze
{
  "analyzer": "my_english_analyzer",
  "text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
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// CONSOLE

/////////////////////

[source,console-result]
----------------------------
{
  "tokens": [
    {
      "token": "2",
      "start_offset": 4,
      "end_offset": 5,
      "type": "<NUM>",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "token": "quick",
      "start_offset": 6,
      "end_offset": 11,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "token": "brown",
      "start_offset": 12,
      "end_offset": 17,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "token": "foxes",
      "start_offset": 18,
      "end_offset": 23,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 4
    },
    {
      "token": "jumpe",
      "start_offset": 24,
      "end_offset": 29,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 5
    },
    {
      "token": "d",
      "start_offset": 29,
      "end_offset": 30,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 6
    },
    {
      "token": "over",
      "start_offset": 31,
      "end_offset": 35,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 7
    },
    {
      "token": "lazy",
      "start_offset": 40,
      "end_offset": 44,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 9
    },
    {
      "token": "dog's",
      "start_offset": 45,
      "end_offset": 50,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 10
    },
    {
      "token": "bone",
      "start_offset": 51,
      "end_offset": 55,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 11
    }
  ]
}
----------------------------

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The above example produces the following terms:

[source,text]
---------------------------
[ 2, quick, brown, foxes, jumpe, d, over, lazy, dog's, bone ]
---------------------------

[float]
=== Definition

The `standard` analyzer consists of:

Tokenizer::
* <<analysis-standard-tokenizer,Standard Tokenizer>>

Token Filters::
* <<analysis-lowercase-tokenfilter,Lower Case Token Filter>>
* <<analysis-stop-tokenfilter,Stop Token Filter>> (disabled by default)

If you need to customize the `standard` analyzer beyond the configuration
parameters then you need to recreate it as a `custom` analyzer and modify
it, usually by adding token filters. This would recreate the built-in
`standard` analyzer and you can use it as a starting point:

[source,js]
----------------------------------------------------
PUT /standard_example
{
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "rebuilt_standard": {
          "tokenizer": "standard",
          "filter": [
            "lowercase"       <1>
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
----------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
// TEST[s/\n$/\nstartyaml\n  - compare_analyzers: {index: standard_example, first: standard, second: rebuilt_standard}\nendyaml\n/]
<1> You'd add any token filters after `lowercase`.