# Need some tips on suggest / autocomplete **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-some-tips-on-suggest-autocomplete/9276 "2012-10-08T16:04:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Benoit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@Benoit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benoit)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-some-tips-on-suggest-autocomplete/9276/1 "2012-10-08T16:04:40Z")
Hi, I've search the ML about suggest / auto-complete. The best way to implement this seems to use a multi-field with an edgeNgram analyzer. Ok. But how do you build the suggested words list ? Any tips ? Benoît -- ---
**Author:** ![Itamar\_Syn\_Hershko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/itamar_syn_hershko/32/725_2.png) [@Itamar\_Syn\_Hershko](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Itamar_Syn_Hershko)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2012, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-some-tips-on-suggest-autocomplete/9276/2 "2012-10-08T16:52:23Z")
Lucene 4 is just around the corner, I'd wait for it as it has better support for this On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Benoît [benoit.intrw@gmail.com](mailto:benoit.intrw@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi, > > I've search the ML about suggest / auto-complete. > > The best way to implement this seems to use a multi-field with an > edgeNgram analyzer. > Ok. But how do you build the suggested words list ? > > Any tips ? > > Benoît > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Male](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/chris_male/32/2607_2.png) [@Chris\_Male](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Male)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-some-tips-on-suggest-autocomplete/9276/3 "2012-10-09T03:06:56Z")
The EdgeNGram approach analyzes content as it goes into the index, forming the grams which are used to find suggestions. Consequently the 'suggested word list' is whatever you put into the index. This could either be your actual indexed content, or it could be an index you created specifically to provide suggestions. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 5:04:40 AM UTC+13, Benoît wrote: > Hi, > > I've search the ML about suggest / auto-complete. > > The best way to implement this seems to use a multi-field with an > edgeNgram analyzer. > Ok. But how do you build the suggested words list ? > > Any tips ? > > Benoît -- ---
**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:** [October 9, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-some-tips-on-suggest-autocomplete/9276/4 "2012-10-09T03:39:15Z")
Hi Benoît, Have you looked at [GitHub - spinscale/elasticsearch-suggest-plugin: Plugin for elasticsearch which uses the lucene FSTSuggester](https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-suggest-plugin) (based on Lucene's FST suggester)? People who use our suggester ( [Cloud Monitoring Tools & Services | Sematext](http://sematext.com/products/autocomplete/index.html)) tend to feed field(s) from their main index as suggestions, e.g., product names, book author names, etc. If you look at [http://search-lucene.com/](http://search-lucene.com/) you'll see we do something similar there - Wiki page titles, JIRA issues, email subjects, etc. are all fed into AC and used for suggestions. We've helped clients feed their queries into AC, too, but this involves a lot of query cleanup, normalization (think N queries that are all unique, but really only slightly different), ranking, etc. ## 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 Monday, October 8, 2012 12:04:40 PM UTC-4, Benoît wrote: > Hi, > > I've search the ML about suggest / auto-complete. > > The best way to implement this seems to use a multi-field with an > edgeNgram analyzer. > Ok. But how do you build the suggested words list ? > > Any tips ? > > Benoît -- ---
**Author:** ![Benoit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5daacb/32.png) [@Benoit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Benoit)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-some-tips-on-suggest-autocomplete/9276/5 "2012-10-09T09:51:27Z")
Hello all, Thank you for your replies. I've looked at the "Suggester Plugin for Elasticsearch" but this is not for me : big warning "THIS IS NOT PRODUCTION READY! DO NOT USE IT." , plus the fact that it need to be rebuild periodically and work at the level of one index. With the edgeNgram field I’ve configured and some tuning of highlighting configuration I’m able to retrieve a list of word easily cleanable but the problem is that there is many times same word in results. I will look to implement suggest on my side or with a dedicated index. Benoît -- ---
**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, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-some-tips-on-suggest-autocomplete/9276/6 "2017-07-06T03:09:37Z")