# Analyzer: Problem when generating tokens

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzer-problem-when-generating-tokens/198765>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 9, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzer-problem-when-generating-tokens/198765 "2019-09-09T18:23:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vitor\_Derobe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vitor_derobe/32/53876_2.png) [@Vitor\_Derobe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vitor_Derobe)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzer-problem-when-generating-tokens/198765/1 "2019-09-09T18:23:45Z")

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Hi guys,

I have a generalized search field, with this analyzer:

```
"analysis": {
  "analyzer": {
    "custom_brazilian": {
      "tokenizer": "standard",
      "filter": [
        "lowercase",
        "asciifolding",
        "brazilian_stop",
        "light_portuguese_stemmer"
      ]
    }
  },
  "filter": {
    "brazilian_stop": {
      "type": "stop",
      "stopwords": [
        "_brazilian_"
      ]
    },
    "light_portuguese_stemmer": {
      "type": "stemmer",
      "language": "light_portuguese"
    }
  }
}

```

So with the standard tokenizer and those filters, any search that I made is tokenized like this:

search: "bota de trabalho"  
tokens: "bota", "trabalho".

That is OK. But in Brazilian Portuguese there are some words made up of other words, for example:  
"meia calça"

I don't want this word to generate the tokens "meia" and "calça". I want this to be unique, something like "meia calça", or "meia-calça"

The problem is, I don't want to change the tokenizer, this one works great, there are just some words that I want to keep the same.

The best solution that I have found is to use a Mapping Char Filter that can replace the search "meia calça" for "meia\_calça", this way the tokenizer will not break into two tokens.

But this does not sound good enough, since I have to make a dictionary with all variations of the word to match, like "Meia calça", "mEia calça"...

I want to avoid regex, because of performance issues.

My doubt is if there is a better solution to this problem?

Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/analyzer-problem-when-generating-tokens/198765/2 "2019-10-07T18:23:47Z")

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