Part 1 · FoundationsChapter 3

Tokenization, Normalization & Stemming

Character filters, a tokenizer, then token filters. A token is intermediate; a term is what gets indexed.

The question
What text becomes searchable?
The structure responsible
The analysis chain

In this lab: Build an analyzer stage by stage and see index-time and query-time analysis agree — or silently disagree.

building the index…