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+IK Analysis for ElasticSearch
+==================================
+
+The IK Analysis plugin integrates Lucene IK analyzer into elasticsearch, support customized dictionary.
+
+
+    --------------------------------------------------
+    | IK  Analysis Plugin         |   ElasticSearch  |
+    --------------------------------------------------
+    | master                      | 0.19.4 -> master |
+    --------------------------------------------------
+    | 1.1.0                       | 0.19.4 -> master |
+    --------------------------------------------------
+    | 1.0.0                       | 0.16.2 -> 0.19.0 |
+    --------------------------------------------------
+
+
+Install
+-------------
+
+In order to install the plugin, simply run:
+ 
+<pre>
+cd bin
+plugin -install medcl/elasticsearch-analysis-ik/1.1.0
+</pre>
+ 
+also download the dict files,unzip these dict file to your elasticsearch's config folder,such as: your-es-root/config/ik
+
+<pre>
+cd config
+wget http://github.com/downloads/medcl/elasticsearch-analysis-ik/ik.zip --no-check-certificate
+unzip ik.zip
+rm ik.zip
+</pre>
+
+you need a service restart after that!
+
+Dict Configuration (es-root/config/ik/IKAnalyzer.cfg.xml)
+-------------
+
+https://github.com/medcl/elasticsearch-analysis-ik/blob/master/config/ik/IKAnalyzer.cfg.xml
+
+<pre>
+
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">  
+<properties>  
+	<comment>IK Analyzer 扩展配置</comment>
+	<!--用户可以在这里配置自己的扩展字典 -->	
+	<entry key="ext_dict">custom/mydict.dic;custom/sougou.dict</entry> 	
+	 <!--用户可以在这里配置自己的扩展停止词字典-->
+	<entry key="ext_stopwords">custom/ext_stopword.dic</entry> 	
+</properties>
+
+</pre>
+
+Analysis Configuration (elasticsearch.yml)
+-------------
+
+<Pre>
+index:
+  analysis:                   
+    analyzer:      
+      ik:
+          alias: [ik_analyzer]
+          type: org.elasticsearch.index.analysis.IkAnalyzerProvider
+</pre>
+Or
+<pre>
+index.analysis.analyzer.ik.type : "ik"
+</pre>
+
+Mapping Configuration
+-------------
+
+Here is a quick example:
+1.create a index
+
+<pre>
+
+curl -XPUT http://localhost:9200/index
+
+</pre>
+
+2.create a mapping
+
+<pre>
+
+curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/index/fulltext/_mapping -d'
+{
+    "fulltext": {
+             "_all": {
+            "indexAnalyzer": "ik",
+            "searchAnalyzer": "ik",
+            "term_vector": "no",
+            "store": "false"
+        },
+        "properties": {
+            "content": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "store": "no",
+                "term_vector": "with_positions_offsets",
+                "indexAnalyzer": "ik",
+                "searchAnalyzer": "ik",
+                "include_in_all": "true",
+                "boost": 8
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}'
+</pre>
+
+3.indexing some docs
+
+<pre>
+
+curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/index/fulltext/1 -d'
+{content:"美国留给伊拉克的是个烂摊子吗"}
+'
+
+curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/index/fulltext/2 -d'
+{content:"公安部：各地校车将享最高路权"}
+'
+
+curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/index/fulltext/3 -d'
+{content:"中韩渔警冲突调查：韩警平均每天扣1艘中国渔船"}
+'
+
+curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/index/fulltext/4 -d'
+{content:"中国驻洛杉矶领事馆遭亚裔男子枪击 嫌犯已自首"}
+'
+</pre>
+
+4.query with highlighting
+
+<pre>
+
+curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/index/fulltext/_search  -d'
+{
+    "query" : { "term" : { "content" : "中国" }},
+    "highlight" : {
+        "pre_tags" : ["<tag1>", "<tag2>"],
+        "post_tags" : ["</tag1>", "</tag2>"],
+        "fields" : {
+            "content" : {}
+        }
+    }
+}
+'
+</pre>
+
+here is the query result
+
+<pre>
+
+{
+    "took": 14,
+    "timed_out": false,
+    "_shards": {
+        "total": 5,
+        "successful": 5,
+        "failed": 0
+    },
+    "hits": {
+        "total": 2,
+        "max_score": 2,
+        "hits": [
+            {
+                "_index": "index",
+                "_type": "fulltext",
+                "_id": "4",
+                "_score": 2,
+                "_source": {
+                    "content": "中国驻洛杉矶领事馆遭亚裔男子枪击 嫌犯已自首"
+                },
+                "highlight": {
+                    "content": [
+                        "<tag1>中国</tag1>驻洛杉矶领事馆遭亚裔男子枪击 嫌犯已自首 "
+                    ]
+                }
+            },
+            {
+                "_index": "index",
+                "_type": "fulltext",
+                "_id": "3",
+                "_score": 2,
+                "_source": {
+                    "content": "中韩渔警冲突调查：韩警平均每天扣1艘中国渔船"
+                },
+                "highlight": {
+                    "content": [
+                        "均每天扣1艘<tag1>中国</tag1>渔船 "
+                    ]
+                }
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+}
+
+</pre>
+
+
+have fun.
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