Content Component 25.4
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# SentenceBreakingOptions

Additional options to use for the Chinese and Japanese sentence-breaking libraries.

## Options for the Chinese Sentence-Breaking Library

- `traditional`. Use a traditional Chinese dictionary. By default, Chinese sentence breaking uses the simplified dictionary.

## Options for the Japanese Sentence-Breaking Library

For the Japanese sentence-breaking library, `SentenceBreakingOptions` specifies how the Content component normalizes equivalent multi-byte characters, to ensure that it tokenizes terms that contain equivalent characters in the same way. You can use one or more of the following options:

- `kana`. Normalizes half-width and full-width Kana characters.

- `oldnew`. Normalizes old Kanji characters (Kyujitai) and new Kanji characters (Shinjitai).

- `hyphen`. Normalizes Katakana prolonged sound marks (similar to a Latin hyphen) at the end of a Katakana term when the Katakana term (including the hyphen) is four letters or more.

- `dbcs`. Normalizes the Japanese Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) alphabet and the ASCII Single Byte Character Set (SBCS) alphabet.

- `number`. Normalizes Japanese Kanji numbers and ASCII numbers. Currently, it supports only a single digit.

- `weakeol`. Ignores new line characters ("\r" and "\n") at indexing time, to ensure that Content correctly tokenizes Japanese terms that break across lines. It ignores new lines only for multi-byte characters.

Separate multiple options with commas. There must be no space before or after a comma.

Type: | String
Default: |
Required: | No
Configuration Section: | LanguageTypes or `MyLanguage`
Example: | `SentenceBreakingOptions=kana,dbcs,number,weakeol`
See Also: | SentenceBreaking NGram

NOTE: If you change this setting after you have indexed content into the Content component, the new setting applies only to new content, and the server logs a warning. To clear the warning and ensure that your change applies to all your content, you must initialize your index and reindex the content.

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Version 25.4 | Last updated October 2025

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Product: Knowledge Discovery Content Component 25.4

Topic Title: SentenceBreakingOptions