# Document similarity problem
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-similarity-problem/116429
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 22, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-similarity-problem/116429 "2018-01-22T06:09:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@jiangshigen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jiangshigen)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2018, 6:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-similarity-problem/116429/1 "2018-01-22T06:09:25Z")
I use this way to achieve some documents, howerer,the relevance scoring of each document is 1.
template example:
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"query\_string": {
"default\_field": "progress\_note",
"query": "{{queryString}}"
}
}
],
"must\_not": ,
"should":
}
},
"from": 0,
"size": 10,
"sort": ,
"aggs": {}
}
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2018, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-similarity-problem/116429/2 "2018-01-22T07:39:40Z")
Please don't post images of text as they are hardly readable and not searchable.
Instead paste the text and format it with `` icon. Check the preview window.
Please format your code using `` icon as explained in [this guide](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will make your post more readable.
Or use markdown style like:
````
```
CODE
```
````
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2018, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-similarity-problem/116429/3 "2018-01-22T07:47:27Z")
Could you provide a result output?
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### Author:  [@jiangshigen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jiangshigen)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-similarity-problem/116429/4 "2018-01-24T06:32:07Z")
I do not understand how to use searchTemplates in the Java API of Elasticsearch correctly. My template seems to work fine when I test it in sense. But when I use the template in Java code, it gives different results.
Here is what I do
```
DELETE /megacorp
PUT /megacorp/employee/1
{
"first_name":"John",
"last_name":"Smith",
"sex":"male","age":25,
"about":"I love to go rock climbing"
}
GET /megacorp/_search
{
"query":{
"bool":{
"must":[
{"term":{"sex":"male"}}
]
}
}
}
```
This returns:
```
{
"took": 5,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
"total": 5,
"successful": 5,
"failed": 0
},
"hits": {
"total": 1,
"max_score": 0.30685282,
"hits": [
{
"_index": "megacorp",
"_type": "employee",
"_id": "AWEnfZtfSGB1cPZqeBGA",
"_score": 0.30685282,
"_source": {
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Smith",
"sex": "male",
"age": 25,
"about": "I love to go rock climbing"
}
}
]
}
}
```
So that looks nice: a score of 0.30685282. But now comes the problem. When I want to use this searchTemplate in my Java code, the score is 1.0 .
Here is my code:
```
public static void main(String[] args) {
RetrievalPatients rp = new RetrievalPatients();
Map template_params = new HashMap<>();
template_params.put("sex", "male");
Client client = rp.getEsClient();
SearchResponse response = client.prepareSearch("megacorp").setTypes("employee")
.setSearchType(SearchType.QUERY_THEN_FETCH)
.setQuery(QueryBuilders.templateQuery("template_gender",ScriptService.ScriptType.FILE,template_params)).get();
System.out.println(response.toString());
client.close();
}
```
template\_gender template content
```
{
"query":{
"bool":{
"must":[
{"term":{"sex":"{{sex}}"}}
]
}
}
}
```
It returns:
```
{
"took" : 7,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1,
"max_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "megacorp",
"_type" : "employee",
"_id" : "AWEnfZtfSGB1cPZqeBGA",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source" : {
"first_name" : "John",
"last_name" : "Smith",
"sex" : "male",
"age" : 25,
"about" : "I love to go rock climbing"
}
} ]
}
}
```
So why is my score 1.0 now instead of 0.30685282?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2018, 6:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/document-similarity-problem/116429/5 "2018-02-21T06:32:23Z")
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