Configuring Index Server to Use the Neutral Word Breaker

• Microsoft Index Server version 2.0

SUMMARY

Some searches against Microsoft Index Server may fail when using a language specific word breaker. he Neutral word breaker can be used as a workaround. This article explains removing the language specific word breaker ensuring that the Neutral word breaker is used.

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IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

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For information about how to edit the registry, view the "Changing Keys and Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

The following is an example on how to remove all word breakers except for the Neutral word breaker

1. Run Regedt32.exe.



2. Select:

   
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex\Language 




3. Select the Language key and Save it to a backup file.



4. Double-click on the InstalledLangs value and remove all lines except for the one showing "Neutral". Click OK.



5. Delete all keys except Neutral below Language.



6. Stop and then restart the index service.



7. Rebuild the catalog by doing a full build.

• In all languages, "advanced" normalization acts differently:
  
  
  • Dates: 9/9/99 and 9-9-1999 will not match
  
  
  
  • Numbers: 1,000 and 1000 will not match
  
  
  
  • Hyphens: database and data-base will not match
  
  
  



• In German compound decomposition will not work.



• In other European languages lose clitic stripping is lost, which may reduce the chances of matching.



• Word stemming will no longer work. Word stemming is where a query on "flew**" returns documents matching flew, fly, flown, and so forth.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbDSupport
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo