# Does ElasticSearch support lemmatization? If yes, then how can I search for docs using this?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-lemmatization-if-yes-then-how-can-i-search-for-docs-using-this/348880>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 8, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-lemmatization-if-yes-then-how-can-i-search-for-docs-using-this/348880 "2023-12-08T10:35:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![prabhuaxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@prabhuaxm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhuaxm)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-lemmatization-if-yes-then-how-can-i-search-for-docs-using-this/348880/1 "2023-12-08T10:35:04Z")

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I am using Python wherein I am searching for a string in a list of string using lemmatization (through SpaCy). I want to do the same thing for Elasticsearch but all the documents I have come across till now say that Lemmatization is not support in Elasticsearch. Instead the search algorithms supports stemming.

I want to know why lemmatization is not supported? And to use a particular stemming algorithm (to make the results similar to NLTK) how do I specify the algorithm in the search query?

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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:** [January 5, 2024, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-support-lemmatization-if-yes-then-how-can-i-search-for-docs-using-this/348880/2 "2024-01-05T10:35:37Z")

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