Indexing and searching for hashtags and usertags
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Background
By default Funnelback will strip out punctuation when indexing and processing user queries.
When searching social media content it is often desirable to allow a user to search for social tags such as #hashtags and @usertags.
This article shows how to configure Funnelback to index these tags, and also to provide the ability to for users to search using these tags.
The hook scripts from the following steps can also be used to enable #hashtag/@usertag searching for twitter collections. Note: you will need to update either the twitter collection's metamap to use hashTag and userTag as the metadata class names for the respective fields, or update the pre process hook script to reference the correct metadata classes.
Code and instructions
Download the code used in this article from GitHub