# Boosting both by FIELD names and TERM PROXIMITY is possible with ES (similar to EDISMAX in SOLR)?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-both-by-field-names-and-term-proximity-is-possible-with-es-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16854>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 7, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-both-by-field-names-and-term-proximity-is-possible-with-es-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16854 "2014-04-07T18:10:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niccolo\_Becchi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8edcca/32.png) [@Niccolo\_Becchi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Niccolo_Becchi)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-both-by-field-names-and-term-proximity-is-possible-with-es-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16854/1 "2014-04-07T18:10:17Z")

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Is there anyway to configure a query in a similar way as edismax in SOLR  
that's taking care about term proximity and boosting by fields?  
I have spend days but actually I haven't found any good solution with  
elasticsearch

That's an example of edismax in SOLR (  
[http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax](http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax) ):

```
params.set("q", "london market bonds");
params.set("qf", "subject title^5");
params.set("pf", "subject^10 title^50");
params.set("ps", "10");
params.set("pf2", "subject^5 title^25");
params.set("ps2", "20");
params.set("mm", "2");
params.set("tie", "0.8");

```

It's translated in the following Lucene query:

+(  
(  
(title:london^5.0 | subject:london)~0.8  
(title:market^5.0 | subject:market)~0.8  
(title:bonds^5.0 | subject:bond)~0.8  
)  
~2  
)  
(subject:"london market bond"~10^10.0)~0.8  
(title:"london market bonds"~10^50.0)~0.8  
(  
(subject:"london market"~20^5.0)~0.8  
(subject:"market bond"~20^5.0)~0.8  
)  
(  
(title:"london market"~20^25.0)~0.8  
(title:"market bonds"~20^25.0)~0.8  
)

With the new Multiple query strings in elasticsearch 1.1 (  
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/multi-query-strings.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/multi-query-strings.html)  
) you can do something similar, but you have no control on the terms  
proximity.  
So, looking for two terms, there is no difference if the two terms are far.  
But this feature is too important if you are looking for example for a  
person with a query like "Michael Johnson".

Thanks  
Niccolo

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**Author:** ![Binh\_Ly\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-both-by-field-names-and-term-proximity-is-possible-with-es-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16854/2 "2014-04-09T17:55:56Z")

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Just a thought, I'm wondering if you can just build a bool query with  
multiple should clauses and just boost each clause. And then I would  
imagine 1 bool clause will do the proximity query (span) like you describe  
above, and then another clause will do the multi\_match. Maybe?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/boosting-both-by-field-names-and-term-proximity-is-possible-with-es-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16854/3 "2017-07-06T01:37:09Z")

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