# Assigning higher scores to specific terms in BM25

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assigning-higher-scores-to-specific-terms-in-bm25/141839
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 26, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assigning-higher-scores-to-specific-terms-in-bm25/141839 "2018-07-26T19:37:55Z")
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### Author: ![nuketro0p3r](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nuketro0p3r/32/32584_2.png) [@nuketro0p3r](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nuketro0p3r)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assigning-higher-scores-to-specific-terms-in-bm25/141839/1 "2018-07-26T19:37:55Z")

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Is it possible to tell ElasticSearch to boost the score of a set of words when computing BM25 scores for a document match?

The context is that the document contains some words/symbols that are more important to match than other words.

Thanks

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2018, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/assigning-higher-scores-to-specific-terms-in-bm25/141839/2 "2018-08-23T19:38:03Z")

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