# How to achieve semantic search with ElasticSearch 8.4.2?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-semantic-search-with-elasticsearch-8-4-2/315038
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 23, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-semantic-search-with-elasticsearch-8-4-2/315038 "2022-09-23T16:41:48Z")
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### Author: ![Dinesh\_Sonachalam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dinesh_sonachalam/32/111191_2.png) [@Dinesh\_Sonachalam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dinesh_Sonachalam)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-semantic-search-with-elasticsearch-8-4-2/315038/1 "2022-09-23T16:41:48Z")

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**How to achieve semantic search with Elasticsearch 8.4.2?**

Hi guys,

I have a basic understanding of adding semantic search support for ES and added them below.

It would be beneficial if you guys share some working examples/code snippets for Semantic Elastic Search functionality.

**What’s a semantic search?**

It understands the contextual meaning of the word being used for search.

**How to achieve semantic search?**

 ![Pasted Graphic 1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/8/d/8d2b1c5ad898598754e8f260285d369234930463.jpeg)

**Also I have seen a working example of integrating ES with SemanticSearch:**  
Uploading: sematnic\_search.drawio.png...

**Reference:** [Pythonist: Power of Semantics Search combined with Elastic Search | ML on ELK](https://soumilshah1995.blogspot.com/2022/01/power-of-semantics-search-combined-with.html)

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### Author: ![droberts195](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/droberts195/32/17692_2.png) [@droberts195](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/droberts195)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-semantic-search-with-elasticsearch-8-4-2/315038/2 "2022-09-23T16:48:13Z")

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This blog describes what we have now: [How to deploy NLP: Text Embeddings and Vector Search | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-deploy-nlp-text-embeddings-and-vector-search)

We're planning to make this easier to use in the future by combining the `_infer` and `_knn_search` steps for doing a search into a single API call. But this isn't in 8.4.2.

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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: [October 21, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-achieve-semantic-search-with-elasticsearch-8-4-2/315038/3 "2022-10-21T16:48:41Z")

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