The Lucene-based search engine Elasticsearch is fast and adaptable, so that it suits most demanding configurations, including large text corpora. I use it daily with tweets and began to release the scripts I use to do so. In this post, I give concrete tips for indexation of text and linguistic analysis.

Mapping

You do not need to define a type for the indexed fields, the database can guess it for you, however it speeds up the process and gives more control to use a mapping. The official documentation is extensive and it is sometimes difficult to get a general idea …

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