# Keyword Map

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 21, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102 "2012-09-21T21:32:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![banderon1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/banderon1/32/2689_2.png) [@banderon1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/banderon1)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/1 "2012-09-21T21:32:37Z")

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I have two text fields that are indexed (name and description), and when a  
query is executed, I want to be able to search for certain keywords based  
on the query. For example, if I search for "kleenex", I also want it to  
search for "facial tissue". I have hundreds/thousands of keywords to map,  
what is the right way to do this?

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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/2 "2012-09-22T02:09:19Z")

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Hi,

It sounds like you may be looking for synonyms?

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>
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## Otis

Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)

On Friday, September 21, 2012 5:32:37 PM UTC-4, banderon1 wrote:

> I have two text fields that are indexed (name and description), and when a  
> query is executed, I want to be able to search for certain keywords based  
> on the query. For example, if I search for "kleenex", I also want it to  
> search for "facial tissue". I have hundreds/thousands of keywords to map,  
> what is the right way to do this?

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**Author:** ![banderon1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/banderon1/32/2689_2.png) [@banderon1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/banderon1)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/3 "2012-09-25T21:57:19Z")

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Thanks, Otis, this looks like the correct path, but I'm still not getting  
proper results. I am trying to add the synonyms filter when adding items to  
my index. I seem to have the proper syntax (copy & pasted from the  
example), but when I add documents (bulk), I don't see any change to my  
index. And when I search, it doesn't appear to have any change. How can I  
tell if the synonyms filter is being implemented on my index?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Otis Gospodnetic \<  
[otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com)\> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> It sounds like you may be looking for synonyms?
> 
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/synonym-tokenfilter.html)
> 
> ## Otis
> 
> Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
> Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
> 
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 5:32:37 PM UTC-4, banderon1 wrote:
> 
> > I have two text fields that are indexed (name and description), and when  
> > a query is executed, I want to be able to search for certain keywords based  
> > on the query. For example, if I search for "kleenex", I also want it to  
> > search for "facial tissue". I have hundreds/thousands of keywords to map,  
> > what is the right way to do this?
> 
> --

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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/4 "2012-09-26T03:23:07Z")

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Hi,

You could peek at your index and see if your synonyms are getting indexed.  
The skywalker plugin should let you do that.

## Otis

Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)

On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 5:57:27 PM UTC-4, banderon1 wrote:

> Thanks, Otis, this looks like the correct path, but I'm still not getting  
> proper results. I am trying to add the synonyms filter when adding items to  
> my index. I seem to have the proper syntax (copy & pasted from the  
> example), but when I add documents (bulk), I don't see any change to my  
> index. And when I search, it doesn't appear to have any change. How can I  
> tell if the synonyms filter is being implemented on my index?
> 
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Otis Gospodnetic \<[otis.gos...@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gos...@gmail.com)\<javascript:\>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It sounds like you may be looking for synonyms?
> > 
> > [Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/synonym-tokenfilter.html)
> > 
> > ## Otis
> > 
> > Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
> > Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
> > 
> > On Friday, September 21, 2012 5:32:37 PM UTC-4, banderon1 wrote:
> > 
> > > I have two text fields that are indexed (name and description), and when  
> > > a query is executed, I want to be able to search for certain keywords based  
> > > on the query. For example, if I search for "kleenex", I also want it to  
> > > search for "facial tissue". I have hundreds/thousands of keywords to map,  
> > > what is the right way to do this?
> > 
> > --

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**Author:** ![banderon1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/banderon1/32/2689_2.png) [@banderon1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/banderon1)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/5 "2012-09-26T16:19:51Z")

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Thanks for introducing me to the skywalker plugin, this looks pretty cool!  
I've been testing my data all morning, and cannot get these indices working  
with synonyms ☹ Here is what I have added to my index before creating it:

{"analysis":{"analyzer":{"synonym":{"tokenizer":"whitespace","filter":["synonym"]}},"filter":{"synonym":{"type":"synonym","synonyms":["embriodery  
, embroidery"]}}}}

And here is what skywalker shows is in my index (I've only added 1 item to  
the index for simplicity, which happens to have the term "embriodery" in  
one of the text fields).

[http://pastebin.com/Ut0chNP1](http://pastebin.com/Ut0chNP1)

No mention of synonyms, which is what I was hoping for... Any ideas?

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Otis Gospodnetic \<  
[otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com)\> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You could peek at your index and see if your synonyms are getting indexed.  
> The skywalker plugin should let you do that.
> 
> ## Otis
> 
> Search Analytics - [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
> Performance Monitoring - [Sematext Monitoring | Infrastructure Monitoring Service](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
> 
> On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 5:57:27 PM UTC-4, banderon1 wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, Otis, this looks like the correct path, but I'm still not getting  
> > proper results. I am trying to add the synonyms filter when adding items to  
> > my index. I seem to have the proper syntax (copy & pasted from the  
> > example), but when I add documents (bulk), I don't see any change to my  
> > index. And when I search, it doesn't appear to have any change. How can I  
> > tell if the synonyms filter is being implemented on my index?
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Otis Gospodnetic [otis.gos...@gmail.com](mailto:otis.gos...@gmail.com)wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > It sounds like you may be looking for synonyms?  
> > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/**guide/reference/index-modules/)\*\*  
> > > analysis/synonym-tokenfilter.\*\*html[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/synonym-tokenfilter.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/synonym-tokenfilter.html)
> > > 
> > > ## Otis
> > > 
> > > Search Analytics - [http://sematext.com/search-\*\*analytics/index.html](http://sematext.com/search-**analytics/index.html)[http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html](http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html)  
> > > Performance Monitoring - [http://sematext.com/spm/index.\*\*html](http://sematext.com/spm/index.**html)[http://sematext.com/spm/index.html](http://sematext.com/spm/index.html)
> > > 
> > > On Friday, September 21, 2012 5:32:37 PM UTC-4, banderon1 wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have two text fields that are indexed (name and description), and  
> > > > when a query is executed, I want to be able to search for certain keywords  
> > > > based on the query. For example, if I search for "kleenex", I also want it  
> > > > to search for "facial tissue". I have hundreds/thousands of keywords to  
> > > > map, what is the right way to do this?
> > > 
> > > --
> > 
> > --

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**Author:** ![banderon1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/banderon1/32/2689_2.png) [@banderon1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/banderon1)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/6 "2012-09-26T17:11:18Z")

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Thanks Otis for introducing me to the skywalker plugin, this is very  
helpful. However, I am not seeing the synonyms in my index. Here is the  
curl request I am using to create my index:

curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/netplenish/](http://localhost:9200/netplenish/)' -d '{

"settings" : {

```
"index" : {

  "analysis" : {

    "analyzer" : {

      "synonym" : {

        "tokenizer" : "whitespace",

        "filter" : ["synonym"]

      }

    },

    "filter" : {

      "synonym" : {

        "type" : "synonym",

        "synonyms" : ["embroidery, embriodery"]

      }

    }

  }

}

```

}

}'

And here is the output I get from skywalker (curl -XGET  
'localhost:9200/netplenish/\_skywalker')

[http://pastebin.com/DGBBue2i](http://pastebin.com/DGBBue2i)

Is there anything blatantly wrong here? Any input is much appreciated!

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**Author:** ![banderon1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/banderon1/32/2689_2.png) [@banderon1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/banderon1)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 8:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/7 "2012-09-27T20:04:59Z")

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I figured it out! The problem was that my analyzer was not being mapped to  
my index. Once I added that, the synonyms are working 🙂

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:11 AM, banderon1 [banderon1@gmail.com](mailto:banderon1@gmail.com) wrote:

> Thanks Otis for introducing me to the skywalker plugin, this is very  
> helpful. However, I am not seeing the synonyms in my index. Here is the  
> curl request I am using to create my index:
> 
> curl -XPUT '[http://localhost:9200/netplenish/](http://localhost:9200/netplenish/)' -d '{
> 
> "settings" : {
> 
> ```
> "index" : {
> 
> "analysis" : {
> 
> "analyzer" : {
> 
> "synonym" : {
> 
> "tokenizer" : "whitespace",
> 
> "filter" : ["synonym"]
> 
> }
> 
> },
> 
> "filter" : {
> 
> "synonym" : {
> 
> "type" : "synonym",
> 
> "synonyms" : ["embroidery, embriodery"]
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> }
> 
> }'
> 
> And here is the output I get from skywalker (curl -XGET  
> 'localhost:9200/netplenish/\_skywalker')
> 
> [http://pastebin.com/DGBBue2i](http://pastebin.com/DGBBue2i)
> 
> Is there anything blatantly wrong here? Any input is much appreciated!
> 
> --

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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, 3:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-map/9102/8 "2017-07-06T03:11:06Z")

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