Linguistic analysis in full-text search

When using full-text search, you have to understand what are the rules for performing such operations. Search engines have to analyze search query lexically to be able to extract important information and pass it to a query tree. In this section, we will cover the most common lexical analysis, which is linguistic analysis, to help you understand how Azure Search works and how to perform correct queries.

Analyzers in Azure Search

To perform linguistic analysis, Azure Search supports a variety of different analyzers, which can be specified in the index definition. However, before we start defining one of those, you have to catch a glimpse of what we are talking about. When creating an...