Hi All! I wrote a Analyzer for apache lucene for analyzing sentences in *Chinese*language, it's called *imdict-chinese-analyzer* as it is a subproject of *imdict*<http://www.imdict.net/>, which is an intelligent online dictionary.
The project on google code is here: http://code.google.com/p/imdict-chinese-analyzer/ In Chinese, "我是中国人"(I am Chinese), should be tokenized as "我"(I) "是"(am) "中国人"(Chinese), *not* "我" "是中" "国人". So the analyzer must handle each sentence properly, or there will be mis-understandings everywhere in the index constructed by Lucene, and the accuracy of the search engine will be affected seriously! Although there are two analyzer packages in apache repository which can handle Chinese: ChineseAnalyzer<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk/contrib/analyzers/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/cn/>and CJKAnalyzer<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk/contrib/analyzers/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/cjk/>, they take each character or every two adjoining characters as a single word, this is obviously not true in reality, also this strategy will increase the index size and hit the performance baddly. The algorithm of* imdict-chinese-analyzer* is based on Hidden Markov Model (HMM), so it can tokenize chinese sentence in a really intelligent way. Tokenizaion accuracy of this model is above 90% according to the paper "HHMM-based Chinese Lexical analyzer ICTCLAL<http://www.nlp.org.cn/project/project.php?proj_id=6> ". As *imdict-chinese-analyzer* is a really fast intelligent Chinese Analyzer for lucene written in Java. I want to share this project with every one using Lucene. This Analyzer contains two packages, *the source code* and the *lexical dictionary*. I want to publish the source code using Apache license, but the dictionary which is under an ambigus license was not create by me. So, can I only submit the source code to lucene contribution repository, and let the users download the dictionary from the google code site? please help me about this contribution.
