Boost two related fields in a search query

[Antojvlt (Anto)]

Hi,

I am new to Elasticsearch and I encounter a difficultly to make my search query to work as expected.
I want to search on documents that contain two field:

"review_count" : {
          "type" : "long"
        },
"stars" : {
          "type" : "float"
        }

And I would like to return documents based on my search and to prioritize those with the highest stars value but also with an high review_count value. This of course needs a trade off.

I tried to use a "function_score" with "field_value_factor" to boost those values:

{
  "size": 3,
  "query": {
    "function_score": {
      "functions": [
        {
          "field_value_factor": {
            "field": "stars",
            "factor": 10,
            "missing": 1
          }
        },
        {
          "field_value_factor": {
            "field": "review_count",
            "factor": 1.2,
            "modifier": "sqrt",
            "missing": 1
          }
        }
      ],
      "query": {
        "multi_match" : {
          "query" : "restaurant",
          "fields" : ["name", "categories"] 
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "_source": [
    "stars",
    "review_count"
  ]
}

But this query isn't powerful enough as the tradeoff is not right and I don't have a clear idea on how I could proceed. This query returns:

{
        "_score" : 7810.9053,
        "_source" : {
          "review_count" : 3771,
          "stars" : 4.0
        }
      },
      {
        "_score" : 6566.245,
        "_source" : {
          "review_count" : 1213,
          "stars" : 4.0
        }
      },
      {
        "_score" : 6180.8545,
        "_source" : {
          "review_count" : 1483,
          "stars" : 4.5
        }
      }

In the ideal result, the third result would be the first as it has 0.5 stars more and it still has a lot of review_count (1483).

I also tried something with a "script_score" and with a script using a min-max scaling but it doesn't look right at all:

{
  "size": 3,
  "query": {
    "script_score": {
      "query": {
        "multi_match" : {
          "query" : "restaurant",
          "fields" : [ "name", "categories"] 
        }
      },
      "script": {
        "params": {
          "stars_factor": 0.6,
          "review_count_factor": 0.4
        },
        "source": """(((doc['stars'].value + 1) - Math.min(doc['stars'].value, doc['review_count'].value)) / (Math.max(doc['stars'].value, doc['review_count'].value) - Math.min(doc['stars'].value, doc['review_count'].value))) * params.stars_factor + (((doc['review_count'].value + 1) - Math.min(doc['stars'].value, doc['review_count'].value)) / (Math.max(doc['stars'].value, doc['review_count'].value) - Math.min(doc['stars'].value, doc['review_count'].value))) * params.review_count_factor"""
      }
    }
  },
  "_source": [
    "stars",
    "review_count"
  ]
}

Thank you for your help!