Arabic Analysis Plugin for Elasticsearch

Arabic Analysis plugin for Elasticsearch. It uses lucene-arabic-analyzer to extract Arabic token roots.

Features

• Normalizes input text by removing diacritics and Hamza-like characters
• Extracts word's roots.

Components

• arabic-root analyzer

Example

GET _analyze
{
  "analyzer": "arabic-root",
  "text": "اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ"
}

// Result:
['هدن','هدي','صرط','قوم']

Configuration

This plugin is preconfigured with builtin normalization, stop-words and a stemmer which is derived from lucene-arabic-analyzer.

Plugin in action

1. Build the plugin:

   mvn clean package
   

2. Run Elasticsearch and install plugin inside a docker container:

   docker compose up
   

3. Open http://localhost:5601/ and login with elastic/elastic credentials.
4. Go to Dev Tools and examine the plugin:

   GET _analyze
   {
     "text": "اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ",
     "analyzer": "arabic-root"
   }