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# 7.9. Token filters

## 7.9.1. Summary

Groonga has token filter module that some processes tokenized token.

Token filter module can be added as a plugin.

You can customize tokenized token by registering your token filters plugins to Groonga.

A table can have zero or more token filters. You can attach token filters to a table by token_filters option in table_create.

Here is an example `table_create` that uses `TokenFilterStopWord` token filter module:

Execution example:

    register token_filters/stop_word
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    table_create Terms TABLE_PAT_KEY ShortText \
      --default_tokenizer TokenBigram \
      --normalizer NormalizerAuto \
      --token_filters TokenFilterStopWord
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]

## 7.9.2. Available token filters

Here is the list of available token filters:

- `TokenFilterStopWord`
- `TokenFilterStem`

### 7.9.2.1. `TokenFilterStopWord`

`TokenFilterStopWord` removes stop words from tokenized token in searching the documents.

`TokenFilterStopWord` can specify stop word after adding the documents because it removes token in searching the documents.

The stop word is specified `is_stop_word` column on lexicon table.

Here is an example that uses `TokenFilterStopWord` token filter:

Execution example:

    register token_filters/stop_word
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    table_create Memos TABLE_NO_KEY
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    column_create Memos content COLUMN_SCALAR ShortText
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    table_create Terms TABLE_PAT_KEY ShortText \
      --default_tokenizer TokenBigram \
      --normalizer NormalizerAuto \
      --token_filters TokenFilterStopWord
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    column_create Terms memos_content COLUMN_INDEX|WITH_POSITION Memos content
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    column_create Terms is_stop_word COLUMN_SCALAR Bool
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    load --table Terms
    [
    {"_key": "and", "is_stop_word": true}
    ]
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], 1]
    load --table Memos
    [
    {"content": "Hello"},
    {"content": "Hello and Good-bye"},
    {"content": "Good-bye"}
    ]
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], 3]
    select Memos --match_columns content --query "Hello and"
    # [
    #   [
    #     0,
    #     1337566253.89858,
    #     0.000355720520019531
    #   ],
    #   [
    #     [
    #       [
    #         2
    #       ],
    #       [
    #         [
    #           "_id",
    #           "UInt32"
    #         ],
    #         [
    #           "content",
    #           "ShortText"
    #         ]
    #       ],
    #       [
    #         1,
    #         "Hello"
    #       ],
    #       [
    #         2,
    #         "Hello and Good-bye"
    #       ]
    #     ]
    #   ]
    # ]

`and` token is marked as stop word in `Terms` table.

`"Hello"` that doesn't have `and` in content is matched. Because `and` is a stop word and `and` is removed from query.

### 7.9.2.2. `TokenFilterStem`

`TokenFilterStem` stems tokenized token.

Here is an example that uses `TokenFilterStem` token filter:

Execution example:

    register token_filters/stem
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    table_create Memos TABLE_NO_KEY
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    column_create Memos content COLUMN_SCALAR ShortText
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    table_create Terms TABLE_PAT_KEY ShortText \
      --default_tokenizer TokenBigram \
      --normalizer NormalizerAuto \
      --token_filters TokenFilterStem
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    column_create Terms memos_content COLUMN_INDEX|WITH_POSITION Memos content
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    load --table Memos
    [
    {"content": "I develop Groonga"},
    {"content": "I'm developing Groonga"},
    {"content": "I developed Groonga"}
    ]
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], 3]
    select Memos --match_columns content --query "develops"
    # [
    #   [
    #     0,
    #     1337566253.89858,
    #     0.000355720520019531
    #   ],
    #   [
    #     [
    #       [
    #         3
    #       ],
    #       [
    #         [
    #           "_id",
    #           "UInt32"
    #         ],
    #         [
    #           "content",
    #           "ShortText"
    #         ]
    #       ],
    #       [
    #         1,
    #         "I develop Groonga"
    #       ],
    #       [
    #         2,
    #         "I'm developing Groonga"
    #       ],
    #       [
    #         3,
    #         "I developed Groonga"
    #       ]
    #     ]
    #   ]
    # ]

All of `develop`, `developing`, `developed` and `develops` tokens are stemmed as `develop`. So we can find `develop`, `developing` and `developed` by `develops` query.

## 7.9.3. See also

- table_create

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