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/**
 * Analyzer for Simplified Chinese, which indexes words.
 * @lucene.experimental
 * <div>
 * Three analyzers are provided for Chinese, each of which treats Chinese text in a different way.
 * <ul>
 *   <li>StandardAnalyzer: Index unigrams (individual Chinese characters) as a token.
 *   <li>CJKAnalyzer (in the analyzers/cjk package): Index bigrams (overlapping groups of two adjacent Chinese characters) as tokens.
 *   <li>SmartChineseAnalyzer (in this package): Index words (attempt to segment Chinese text into words) as tokens.
 * </ul>
 * 
 * Example phrase： "我是中国人"
 * <ol>
 *   <li>StandardAnalyzer: 我－是－中－国－人</li>
 *   <li>CJKAnalyzer: 我是－是中－中国－国人</li>
 *   <li>SmartChineseAnalyzer: 我－是－中国－人</li>
 * </ol>
 * </div>
 */
package org.apache.lucene.analysis.cn.smart;