Linguistic analysis in a full-text search

When doing a full-text search, you have to understand what the rules are for performing such an operation. Search engines must analyze search queries 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 Cognitive 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, we need a brief overview of what we are talking about. When creating an index, each search service must analyze all input documents and decide what will be important when performing a search procedure.

Additionally, each search query should be adjusted to some common rules so that the search engine can understand...