# Need help setting up autocomplete suggestions using phrase suggester **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-setting-up-autocomplete-suggestions-using-phrase-suggester/17656 "2014-05-21T21:07:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paul\_Bormans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@Paul\_Bormans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paul_Bormans)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-setting-up-autocomplete-suggestions-using-phrase-suggester/17656/1 "2014-05-21T21:07:42Z")
After days of reading ... i'm still confused and need some help setting up an autocomplete function. My intention is to provide search suggestions (as-you-type) to a twitter typeahead search box. So this means i don't want to return actual documents but ranked suggestion instead. The three suggesters seem to target exactly that so i thought to try the phrase suggester. { "accoms\_unittest" : { "settings" : { "index" : { "uuid" : "t6hW60RoSmyS7sf8\_GBrwg", "analysis" : { "filter" : { "filter\_shingle" : { "type" : "shingle", "min\_shingle\_size" : "1", "max\_shingle\_size" : "4", "output\_unigrams" : "true" } }, "analyzer" : { "shingle\_analyzer" : { "type" : "custom", "filter" : ["standard", "lowercase", "filter\_shingle"], "tokenizer" : "standard" } } }, "number\_of\_replicas" : "1", "number\_of\_shards" : "5", "version" : { "created" : "1000299" } } } } } { "accoms\_unittest" : { "mappings" : { "modelresult" : { "\_boost" : { "name" : "boost", "null\_value" : 1.0 }, "properties" : { \<...\> "text\_nl" : { "type" : "string", "store" : true, "term\_vector" : "with\_positions\_offsets", "analyzer" : "snowball" }, "text\_suggest\_nl" : { "type" : "string", "store" : true, "term\_vector" : "with\_positions\_offsets", "analyzer" : "shingle\_analyzer" }, } } } } } GET accoms\_unittest/\_search { "query": { "match\_all": {} }, "suggest": { "text": "levendige kleu", "simple\_phrase" : { "phrase": { "field": "text\_suggest\_nl", "size": 5, "analyzer": "standard", "real\_word\_error\_likelihood": 0.95, "max\_errors": 1, "gram\_size": 4, "direct\_generator" : [ { "field" : "text\_nl", "suggest\_mode" : "always", "min\_word\_len" : 1 } ] } ``` } ``` }, "from": 0, "size": 0 } { "took": 8, "timed\_out": false, "\_shards": { "total": 5, "successful": 5, "failed": 0 }, "hits": { "total": 12, "max\_score": 0, "hits": [] }, "suggest": { "simple\_phrase": [ { "text": "levendige kleu", "offset": 0, "length": 14, "options": [] } ] } } I know one of the objects has following input text: "De levendige kleuren en de etc...", so i run following search experiments: "text": "levendige kleure" yields a suggestion "levendige kleuren" with score: 2854.164 "text": "levendig kleure" yields no results? "text": "levendi" also yields no suggestions? Obviously when a user starts typing i would like to see a suggestion like "levendige" based on input search text "lev". What am i missing here? - is this the way to go? - Paul Bormans -- 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/2ed471f3-bf44-4b05-911e-f5540f9f5fb2%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2ed471f3-bf44-4b05-911e-f5540f9f5fb2%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Bormans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@Paul\_Bormans](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paul_Bormans)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-setting-up-autocomplete-suggestions-using-phrase-suggester/17656/2 "2014-06-06T21:05:42Z")
I just wanted to let anyone know i didn't succeed with the phrase suggester and i switched to the completion suggester, that actually works very well to my purpose. Paul -- 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/e0410cb8-60df-428c-8225-6ea00146630f%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/e0410cb8-60df-428c-8225-6ea00146630f%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-setting-up-autocomplete-suggestions-using-phrase-suggester/17656/3 "2014-06-06T21:34:49Z")
Yeah, sorry for not getting back to you earlier. The phrase and term suggesters are more for providing "did you mean:" style spelling corrections then typeahead. The completion suggester is for typeahead. On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Paul Bormans [peebor@gmail.com](mailto:peebor@gmail.com) wrote: > I just wanted to let anyone know i didn't succeed with the phrase > suggester and i switched to the completion suggester, that actually works > very well to my purpose. > Paul > > -- > 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/e0410cb8-60df-428c-8225-6ea00146630f%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/e0410cb8-60df-428c-8225-6ea00146630f%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/e0410cb8-60df-428c-8225-6ea00146630f%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/e0410cb8-60df-428c-8225-6ea00146630f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- 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/CAPmjWd1ABJgLx62CaHCUX%3Du1ztv-jdm%2BdLVcoZjt%3DOfLNdcruA%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd1ABJgLx62CaHCUX%3Du1ztv-jdm%2BdLVcoZjt%3DOfLNdcruA%40mail.gmail.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, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-setting-up-autocomplete-suggestions-using-phrase-suggester/17656/4 "2017-07-06T01:24:04Z")