Hi Kruti, The short answer is yes, it is possible. Here's one way to do it:
Have the fields you search on as multi field<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html>, where you index them with various settings, like once not-analyzed for exact matches, once with ngrams to account for typoes and so on. You can query all those sub-fields, and use the multi-match query with best fields<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-best-fields>or the DisMax query<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-dis-max-query.html>to wrap all those queries and take the best score (or the best score and a factor of the other scores by using the tie breaker). Now, for the specific requirements you have: 1. For exact matching, you can skip analysis altogether, and set "index" to "not_anyzed". Alternatively, you could use the simple analyzer<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-simple-analyzer.html#analysis-simple-analyzer> or something equally "harmless" to allow for some error. You could boost this kind of query a lot, so that exact matches come out on top 2. For phrase matches with distance, you can use the match_phrase type of the match query<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#_phrase>. You can configure a *slop* that defines the maximum allowed distance for a match to show up in your results. Documents with "closer" words should get higher scores. You would boost this query less than the exact matches, but more than the following. 3. For handling plurals, you'd probably need to do some stemming. Have a look at the snowball token filter<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.html>or the stemmer token filter<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.html#analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter>. Again, this would be boosted lower than 1) and 2), but more than 4) 4. For handling substrings, you can use ngrams, as you already seem to be doing. Alternatively, you can pay the price at query time by using the "fuziness" option of the match query. Best regards, Radu -- Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kruti Shukla <[email protected]>wrote: > *My final goal is to have following search precedence:* > 1. Exact phrase match > 2. Exact word match with incremental distance > 3. Plurals > 4. Substring > > *Suppose I have following documents:* > i. men’s shaver > ii. men’s shavers > iii. men’s foil shaver > iv. men’s foils shaver > v. men’s foil shavers > vi. men’s foils shavers > > *Case 1: *search for : “men’s foil shaver” > *Expected result:* > 1. men’s foil shaver <------ exact phrase match > 2. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0 > word distance + plural > 3. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1 > word distance + plural > 4. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2 > plurals > 5. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match) > 6. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural (66% > match) > > *Case 2: *search for : “men’s foil shavers” > *Expected result:* > 1. men’s foil shavers <------ exact phrase match > 2. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0 word > distance + singular > 3. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1 > word distance + singular > 4. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2 > singulars > 5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match) > 6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66% > match) > > > *Case 3:* search for : “men’s foils shavers” > *Expected result:* > 1. men’s foils shavers <------ exact phrase match > 2. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0 > word distance + singular > 3. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1 > word distance + singular > 4. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2 > singulars > 5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match) > 6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66% > match) > > > Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this? > This question is related to my other question which is not answered yet. > Link to my other question " > https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/elasticsearch/ui9OR7JARs4/Mp3oOtTqY0EJ > ". > > Any suggestion would help! > Thank you. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c2ead70e-c5d6-4001-87fd-645a16e670dc%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c2ead70e-c5d6-4001-87fd-645a16e670dc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. 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