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Peter Straßer

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Solution Architect with developer experience in e-commerce search applications.

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How to search languages with compound words

January 29, 2025

How to search languages with compound words

Compound words present challenges in search engines during text analysis and tokenization, as they can obscure meaningful connections between word components. Tools like the Hyphenation Decompounder Token Filter help address these issues by deconstructing compound words.

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