# Entity extraction on query?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entity-extraction-on-query/123947>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entity-extraction-on-query/123947 "2018-03-14T16:07:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![aclowkey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclowkey/32/51020_2.png) [@aclowkey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aclowkey)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entity-extraction-on-query/123947/1 "2018-03-14T16:07:47Z")

</div>

I was curious if anyone knows about performing entity extraction on a user query, on query time, to determine which fields to search on?

i.e. "Black hats for women" would be tagged as black:color, hats:category, women:gender  
and this query would be run for color,category and gender fields?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/entity-extraction-on-query/123947/2 "2018-04-11T16:08:23Z")

</div>

Closed on April 11, 2018, 4:08pm UTC

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.