Often people using our search type "how to <something>" eg "how to paint my kitchen". This might result in results for "tips to paint my kitchen" or "how to paint my bathroom". the phrase "how to" is a generic phrase and I would like to minimize its significance. I don't want to remove it completely because I still would like a post called "how to paint my kitchen cabinets" to match higher than "should I wallpaper or paint my kitchen".
I don't want it to be a stopword because it still has value (as in the example). The Common Terms query might work - but I don't necessarily want to apply the rules to all other common phrases (it might be a good idea - but this is a specific common search term that I know people search for and I would like to solve it specifically for this case if possible.) I don't think the negative boost is what I want because I don't want those documents to get penalized for containing the words "how to" - just that they should get a much smaller boost. Any suggestions how to approach this? For the record, I'm using the BM25 similarity algorithm. -- 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/acd86fb2-ae69-40be-a772-c65d008f2415%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
