# How to make a query could match Possessive Case? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 23, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-query-could-match-possessive-case/11668 "2013-04-23T12:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jingang\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@Jingang\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jingang_Wang)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-query-could-match-possessive-case/11668/1 "2013-04-23T12:44:22Z")
Hi there, I used default settings to create the indices on my data,while I found that queries could not match Possessive Case. For example, when I make a matchPhrasequery("Aharon Barak"), the documents including strings such as "Aharon Barak's wife". I have known that I need to set the word delimiter tokenfilter： [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/word-delimiter-tokenfilter/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/word-delimiter-tokenfilter/) From my understanding, I need to create the indices again after I change the settings. Is there any convenient means to handle this problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Jingang\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@Jingang\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jingang_Wang)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-query-could-match-possessive-case/11668/2 "2013-04-23T12:53:06Z")
Also, I'm using ES 0.90.Beta On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:44:22 PM UTC+8, Jingang Wang wrote: > Hi there, > > I used default settings to create the indices on my data,while I found > that queries could not match Possessive Case. > For example, when I make a matchPhrasequery("Aharon Barak"), the > documents including strings such as "Aharon Barak's wife". > I have known that I need to set the word delimiter tokenfilter： > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/word-delimiter-tokenfilter/) > > From my understanding, I need to create the indices again after I change > the settings. > Is there any convenient means to handle this problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![taras](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/taras/32/507_2.png) [@taras](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/taras)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-query-could-match-possessive-case/11668/3 "2013-04-24T03:52:29Z")
You do have to rebuild the index. There are currently no schema migrations for Elasticsearch. If it isn't convenient to re-generate the data, you could do a scan of the old index and insert each document into new index (server). On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:53:06 AM UTC-7, Jingang Wang wrote: > Also, I'm using ES 0.90.Beta > > On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:44:22 PM UTC+8, Jingang Wang wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I used default settings to create the indices on my data,while I found > > that queries could not match Possessive Case. > > For example, when I make a matchPhrasequery("Aharon Barak"), the > > documents including strings such as "Aharon Barak's wife". > > I have known that I need to set the word delimiter tokenfilter： > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/word-delimiter-tokenfilter/) > > > > From my understanding, I need to create the indices again after I change > > the settings. > > Is there any convenient means to handle this problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Jingang\_Wang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@Jingang\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jingang_Wang)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-query-could-match-possessive-case/11668/4 "2013-04-24T05:58:20Z")
Thank you, Taras. I have checked the word delimiter tokenfilter description. Should I explicitly set it when put mapping? Would ES set it as default settings? On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 11:52:29 AM UTC+8, Taras Shkvarchuk wrote: > You do have to rebuild the index. There are currently no schema migrations > for Elasticsearch. > If it isn't convenient to re-generate the data, you could do a scan of the > old index and insert each document into new index (server). > > On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:53:06 AM UTC-7, Jingang Wang wrote: > > > Also, I'm using ES 0.90.Beta > > > > On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:44:22 PM UTC+8, Jingang Wang wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > > > > I used default settings to create the indices on my data,while I found > > > that queries could not match Possessive Case. > > > For example, when I make a matchPhrasequery("Aharon Barak"), the > > > documents including strings such as "Aharon Barak's wife". > > > I have known that I need to set the word delimiter tokenfilter： > > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/word-delimiter-tokenfilter/) > > > > > > From my understanding, I need to create the indices again after I change > > > the settings. > > > Is there any convenient means to handle this problem? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**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, 2:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-a-query-could-match-possessive-case/11668/5 "2017-07-06T02:39:51Z")