# Combining language-specific analyzer and synonym token filter
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/combining-language-specific-analyzer-and-synonym-token-filter/7876
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 28, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/combining-language-specific-analyzer-and-synonym-token-filter/7876 "2012-05-28T01:28:51Z")
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### Author:  [@anon44344346](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon44344346)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/combining-language-specific-analyzer-and-synonym-token-filter/7876/1 "2012-05-28T01:28:51Z")
we use language-specifyc analyzer.
in my understanding, language-specific analyzer is a combination of
standard tokenizer plus customized stop words plus language-specific
stemming (I don't know if that last thing is done through snowball, though).
I want to add synonyms feature, but I'm guessing I can not just add the
synonym filter to the language-specific analyzer, since the tokens that the
synonym filter would receive would be 'stemmed' versions.
I was thinking if there is anywhere I can see what exact combination of
filters the language analyzers are made of, I could plug the synonym filter
before the stemming.
## Is that possible, am I just throwing stones here? (quite probably, these are my first steps with elasticsearch), is there any other approax??
uh, oh [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMD\_T7ICL0o](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMD_T7ICL0o).
[http://windows7sins.org/](http://windows7sins.org/)
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### Author:  [@anon44344346](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anon44344346)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2012, 11:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/combining-language-specific-analyzer-and-synonym-token-filter/7876/2 "2012-05-28T11:37:55Z")
Ok, I've found this link:
[http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/branches/lucene\_solr\_3\_6/solr/example/solr/conf/schema.xml](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/branches/lucene_solr_3_6/solr/example/solr/conf/schema.xml)
although its painfully hard to review, looks like it shows what
'laguage-specific analyzers are really made of'. is Elasticsearch using
this or there is another place to look at?
On Sunday, May 27, 2012 9:28:51 PM UTC-4, JoeZ99 wrote:
> we use language-specifyc analyzer.
> in my understanding, language-specific analyzer is a combination of
> standard tokenizer plus customized stop words plus language-specific
> stemming (I don't know if that last thing is done through snowball, though).
>
> I want to add synonyms feature, but I'm guessing I can not just add the
> synonym filter to the language-specific analyzer, since the tokens that the
> synonym filter would receive would be 'stemmed' versions.
>
> I was thinking if there is anywhere I can see what exact combination of
> filters the language analyzers are made of, I could plug the synonym filter
> before the stemming.
>
> ## Is that possible, am I just throwing stones here? (quite probably, these are my first steps with elasticsearch), is there any other approax??
>
> uh, oh [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMD\_T7ICL0o](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMD_T7ICL0o).
>
> [http://windows7sins.org/](http://windows7sins.org/)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/combining-language-specific-analyzer-and-synonym-token-filter/7876/3 "2017-07-06T03:26:43Z")