# ElasticSearch - Phonetic and Human Names

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-phonetic-and-human-names/14909>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 17, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-phonetic-and-human-names/14909 "2013-12-17T10:47:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/839c29/32.png) [@Nathan\_Smith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Smith)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-phonetic-and-human-names/14909/1 "2013-12-17T10:47:18Z")

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I have a large database of names, primarily from Scotland. We're currently  
producing a prototype to replace an existing piece of software which  
carries out the search. This is still in production and we're aiming to get  
our results as closes as possible to the current results of the same search.

I was hoping someone could help me out, I am entering in a search into  
Elastic Search, the query is "Michael Heaney", I get some wild results. The  
current search returns two main surnames, these are - "Heaney" and "Heavey"  
all with the forename of "Michael", I can get the "Heaney" results in  
Elastic Search however I can't obtain "Heavey" and ES also returns people  
without the surname "Michael" however I appreciate that that's due to it  
being part of the fuzzy query. I know this is a narrow use case, as it's  
only one search but getting this result and knowing how I can obtain it  
will help.

Thanks.

**Mapping**

```
{
   "jr": {
    "_all": {
        "enabled": true,
        "index_analyzer": "index_analyzer",
        "search_analyzer": "search_analyzer"
    },
    "properties": {
        "pty_forename": {
            "type": "string",
            "index": "analyzed",
            "boost": 2,
            "index_analyzer": "index_analyzer",
            "search_analyzer": "search_analyzer",
            "store": "yes"
        },
        "pty_full_name": {
            "type": "string",
            "index": "analyzed",
            "boost": 4,
            "index_analyzer": "index_analyzer",
            "search_analyzer": "search_analyzer",
            "store": "yes"
        },
        "pty_surname": {
            "type": "string",
            "index": "analyzed",
            "boost": 4,
            "index_analyzer": "index_analyzer",
            "search_analyzer": "search_analyzer",
            "store": "yes"
        }
     }
   }
}'

```

**Index Settings**

```
{
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 2,
    "number_of_replicas": 0,
    "analysis": {
        "analyzer": {
            "index_analyzer": {
                "tokenizer": "standard",
                "filter": [
                    "standard",
                    "my_delimiter",
                    "lowercase",
                    "stop",
                    "asciifolding",
                    "porter_stem",
                    "my_metaphone"
                ]
            },
            "search_analyzer": {
                "tokenizer": "standard",
                "filter": [
                    "standard",
                    "my_metaphone",
                    "synonym",
                    "lowercase",
                    "stop",
                    "asciifolding",
                    "porter_stem"
                ]
            }
        },
        "filter": {
            "synonym": {
                "type": "synonym",
                "synonyms_path": "synonyms/synonyms.txt"
            },
            "my_delimiter": {
                "type": "word_delimiter",
                "generate_word_parts": true,
                "catenate_words": false,
                "catenate_numbers": false,
                "catenate_all": false,
                "split_on_case_change": false,
                "preserve_original": false,
                "split_on_numerics": false,
                "stem_english_possessive": false
            },
            "my_metaphone": {
                "type": "phonetic",
                "encoder": "metaphone",
                "replace": false
            }
        }
     }
   }
}'

```

**Fuzzy**

```
{
"from":0, "size":100,
"query": {
    "bool": {
        "should": [
            {
                "fuzzy": {
                    "pty_surname": {
                        "min_similarity": 0.2,
                        "value": "Heaney",
                        "prefix_length": 0,
                        "boost": 5
                    }
                }
            },
            {
                "fuzzy": {
                    "pty_forename": {
                        "min_similarity": 1,
                        "value": "Michael",
                        "prefix_length": 0,
                        "boost": 1
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
     }
  }
}

```

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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, 2:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-phonetic-and-human-names/14909/2 "2017-07-06T02:00:39Z")

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