# Match\_phrase\_prefix and scores **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 13, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-phrase-prefix-and-scores/20216 "2014-10-13T12:56:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mehmet\_Cem\_Gunturkun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Mehmet\_Cem\_Gunturkun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mehmet_Cem_Gunturkun)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-phrase-prefix-and-scores/20216/1 "2014-10-13T12:56:34Z")
Hi, I have been working on elasticsearch and I couldn't figure it out something about prefix search.I am trying to create a music search engine. However, on prefix search I have some troubles. Let me give some info about my index and mappings: { "testindex": { "mappings": { "track": { "dynamic": "true", "numeric\_detection": true, "properties": { "album": { "type": "string", "analyzer": "music\_field" }, "artist": { "type": "string", "analyzer": "music\_field" }, "id": { "type": "string" }, "title": { "type": "string", "analyzer": "music\_field" } } } } } } Settings and main analzyers are: { "testindex": { "settings": { "index": { "uuid": "uHDWlHxpQ22itmOcnJpi9g", "analysis": { "char\_filter": { "xfactor": { "type": "mapping", "mappings": [ "-=\>" ] }, "kesha": { "pattern": "^([^$]+)$([^$]+)$", "type": "pattern\_replace", "replacement": "$1s$2" }, "pink": { "pattern": "^([^$]+)!([^$]+)$", "type": "pattern\_replace", "replacement": "$1i$2" }, "sharp": { "pattern": "^([^$]+)#([^$]+)$", "type": "pattern\_replace", "replacement": "$1h$2" } }, "analyzer": { "music\_field": { "type": "custom", "char\_filter": [ "kesha", "sharp", "pink", "xfactor" ], "filter": [ "asciifolding" ], "tokenizer": "lowercase" } } }, "number\_of\_replicas": "1", "number\_of\_shards": "5", "version": { "created": "1030099" } } } } } After this initialization, I have 7 songs into index such as: { "took": 3, "timed\_out": false, "\_shards": { "total": 5, "successful": 5, "failed": 0 }, "hits": { "total": 7, "max\_score": 1, "hits": [ { "\_index": "testindex", "\_type": "track", "\_id": "4", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "title": "Funhouse", "artist": "Pink", "album": "", "id": "4" } }, { "\_index": "testindex", "\_type": "track", "\_id": "5", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "title": "Chica Chica", "artist": "Pinka", "album": "", "id": "5" } }, { "\_index": "testindex", "\_type": "track", "\_id": "1", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "title": "Comfortably Numb", "artist": "Pink Floyd", "album": "", "id": "1" } }, { "\_index": "testindex", "\_type": "track", "\_id": "6", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "title": "Fever Dream", "artist": "Mr Pink", "album": "", "id": "6" } }, { "\_index": "testindex", "\_type": "track", "\_id": "2", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "title": "Brain Damage", "artist": "Pink Floyd", "album": "", "id": "2" } }, { "\_index": "testindex", "\_type": "track", "\_id": "7", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "title": "Another Bullshit Song", "artist": "Pinkafree", "album": "", "id": "7" } }, { "\_index": "testindex", "\_type": "track", "\_id": "3", "\_score": 1, "\_source": { "title": "The Gnome", "artist": "Pink Floyd", "album": "", "id": "3" } } ] } } After that I create a query to search tracks of which artists name startsWith "Pink". localhost:9200/testindex/track/\_search?pretty=true&search\_type=dfs\_query\_then\_fetch { "query": { "match\_phrase\_prefix": { "artist": { "query": "pink" } } } } I am expecting that Funhouse should be first one and with highest score in the list. However result of the search is like that: { "took" : 4, "timed\_out" : false, "\_shards" : { "total" : 5, "successful" : 5, "failed" : 0 }, "hits" : { "total" : 7, "max\_score" : 2.3862944, "hits" : [ { "\_index" : "testindex", "\_type" : "track", "\_id" : "5", "\_score" : 2.3862944, "\_source":{"title":"Chica Chica","artist":"Pinka","album":"","id":"5"} }, { "\_index" : "testindex", "\_type" : "track", "\_id" : "7", "\_score" : 2.1554716, "\_source":{"title":"Another Bullshit Song","artist":"Pinkafree","album":"","id":"7"} }, { "\_index" : "testindex", "\_type" : "track", "\_id" : "4", "\_score" : 1.1335315, "\_source":{"title":"Funhouse","artist":"Pink","album":"","id":"4"} }, { "\_index" : "testindex", "\_type" : "track", "\_id" : "1", "\_score" : 0.7084572, "\_source":{"title":"Comfortably Numb","artist":"Pink Floyd","album":"","id":"1"} }, { "\_index" : "testindex", "\_type" : "track", "\_id" : "6", "\_score" : 0.7084572, "\_source":{"title":"Fever Dream","artist":"Mr Pink","album":"","id":"6"} }, { "\_index" : "testindex", "\_type" : "track", "\_id" : "3", "\_score" : 0.7084572, "\_source":{"title":"The Gnome","artist":"Pink Floyd","album":"","id":"3"} }, { "\_index" : "testindex", "\_type" : "track", "\_id" : "2", "\_score" : 0.3039775, "\_source":{"title":"Brain Damage","artist":"Pink Floyd","album":"","id":"2"} } ] } } I tried regex, prefix and wildcard search. However; I culdn't find a wat for this problem. What is the ideal way to do it? Mehmet - -- 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). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/35a2d6c0-f9a1-4770-8336-84592b434ae6%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/35a2d6c0-f9a1-4770-8336-84592b434ae6%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-phrase-prefix-and-scores/20216/2 "2017-07-06T00:56:34Z")