Partial word match with singular and plurals: Elasticsearch

My final goal is to have following search precedence:

  1. Exact phrase match
  2. Exact word match with incremental distance
  3. Plurals
  4. Substring

Suppose I have following documents:
i. men’s shaver
ii. men’s shavers
iii. men’s foil shaver
iv. men’s foils shaver
v. men’s foil shavers
vi. men’s foils shavers

*Case 1: *search for : “men’s foil shaver”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shaver <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0 word
    distance + plural
  3. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1 word
    distance + plural
  4. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2 plurals
  5. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural (66%
    match)

*Case 2: *search for : “men’s foil shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0 word
    distance + singular
  3. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1 word
    distance + singular
  4. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2 singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66%
    match)

Case 3: search for : “men’s foils shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foils shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0 word
    distance + singular
  3. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1 word
    distance + singular
  4. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2 singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66%
    match)

Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this?
This question is related to my other question which is not answered yet.
Link to my other question "
https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/elasticsearch/ui9OR7JARs4/Mp3oOtTqY0EJ
".

Any suggestion would help!
Thank you.

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Hi Kruti,

The short answer is yes, it is possible. Here's one way to do it:

Have the fields you search on as multi
fieldhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html,
where you index them with various settings, like once not-analyzed for
exact matches, once with ngrams to account for typoes and so on. You can
query all those sub-fields, and use the multi-match query with best
fieldshttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-best-fieldsor
the DisMax
queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-dis-max-query.htmlto
wrap all those queries and take the best score (or the best score and
a
factor of the other scores by using the tie breaker).

Now, for the specific requirements you have:

  1. For exact matching, you can skip analysis altogether, and set "index" to
    "not_anyzed". Alternatively, you could use the simple
    analyzerhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-simple-analyzer.html#analysis-simple-analyzer
    or
    something equally "harmless" to allow for some error. You could boost this
    kind of query a lot, so that exact matches come out on top
  2. For phrase matches with distance, you can use the match_phrase type of
    the match queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#_phrase.
    You can configure a slop that defines the maximum allowed distance for a
    match to show up in your results. Documents with "closer" words should get
    higher scores. You would boost this query less than the exact matches, but
    more than the following.
  3. For handling plurals, you'd probably need to do some stemming. Have a
    look at the snowball token
    filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.htmlor
    the stemmer
    token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.html#analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.
    Again, this would be boosted lower than 1) and 2), but more than 4)
  4. For handling substrings, you can use ngrams, as you already seem to be
    doing. Alternatively, you can pay the price at query time by using the
    "fuziness" option of the match query.

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kruti Shukla krutibhatt17@gmail.comwrote:

My final goal is to have following search precedence:

  1. Exact phrase match
  2. Exact word match with incremental distance
  3. Plurals
  4. Substring

Suppose I have following documents:
i. men’s shaver
ii. men’s shavers
iii. men’s foil shaver
iv. men’s foils shaver
v. men’s foil shavers
vi. men’s foils shavers

*Case 1: *search for : “men’s foil shaver”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shaver <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + plural
  3. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + plural
  4. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    plurals
  5. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural (66%
    match)

*Case 2: *search for : “men’s foil shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0 word
    distance + singular
  3. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66%
    match)

Case 3: search for : “men’s foils shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foils shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66%
    match)

Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this?
This question is related to my other question which is not answered yet.
Link to my other question "
Redirecting to Google Groups
".

Any suggestion would help!
Thank you.

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Hi Radu,

Thank you so for the suggestions. I was knowing mul-field but was not
knowing how helpful it can be but now I'm able play with the multi field
feature.
I tried following suggestion and created index and mapping accordingly.

I tried querying for first 2. First one was simple and second one with
slop. It is not returning correct slop(i,e, incremental distance).
Please help/suggest query improvements.

Please see my settings below:

*For index: *
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index" -d'
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"trigrams_filter": {
"type": "ngram",
"min_gram": 1,
"max_gram": 50
},
"my_stemmer" : {
"type" : "stemmer",
"name" : "minimal_english"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"trigrams": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"trigrams_filter"
]
},
"my_stemmer_analyzer":{
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"my_stemmer"
]
}
}
}
}
}'

For mappings:
curl -XPUT
"http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_mapping"
-d'
{
"my_improved_index_type": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "multi_field",
"fields": {
"name_gram": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "trigrams"
},
"untouched": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name_stemmer":{
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_stemmer_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}

}'

Available documents:

  1. men’s shaver
  2. men’s shavers
  3. men’s foil shaver
    
  4. men’s foils shaver
  5. men’s foil shavers
  6. men’s foils shavers
  7. men's foil advanced shaver
  8. norelco men's foil advanced shaver

Query:
curl -XPOST
"http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_search" -d'
{
"size": 30,
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name.untouched": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"operator": "and",
"type": "phrase",
"boost": "10"
}
}
},
{
"match_phrase": {
"name.name_stemmer": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"slop": 5
}
}
}
]
}
}
}'

Returned result:

  1. men's shaver --> correct
  2. men's shavers --> correct
  3. men's foils shaver --> NOT correct
  4. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  6. men's foil shaver --> NOT correct.

Expected result:

  1. men's shaver --> exact phrase match
  2. men's shavers --> ZERO word distance + 1 plural
  3. men's foil shaver --> 1 word distance
  4. men's foils shaver --> 1 word distance + 1 plural
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance
  6. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance

Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:26:02 AM UTC-4, Radu Gheorghe wrote:

Hi Kruti,

The short answer is yes, it is possible. Here's one way to do it:

Have the fields you search on as multi fieldhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html,
where you index them with various settings, like once not-analyzed for
exact matches, once with ngrams to account for typoes and so on. You can
query all those sub-fields, and use the multi-match query with best fieldshttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-best-fieldsor the DisMax
queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-dis-max-query.htmlto wrap all those queries and take the best score (or the best score and a
factor of the other scores by using the tie breaker).

Now, for the specific requirements you have:

  1. For exact matching, you can skip analysis altogether, and set "index"
    to "not_anyzed". Alternatively, you could use the simple analyzerhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-simple-analyzer.html#analysis-simple-analyzer or
    something equally "harmless" to allow for some error. You could boost this
    kind of query a lot, so that exact matches come out on top
  2. For phrase matches with distance, you can use the match_phrase type of
    the match queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#_phrase.
    You can configure a slop that defines the maximum allowed distance for
    a match to show up in your results. Documents with "closer" words should
    get higher scores. You would boost this query less than the exact matches,
    but more than the following.
  3. For handling plurals, you'd probably need to do some stemming. Have a
    look at the snowball token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.htmlor the stemmer
    token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.html#analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.
    Again, this would be boosted lower than 1) and 2), but more than 4)
  4. For handling substrings, you can use ngrams, as you already seem to be
    doing. Alternatively, you can pay the price at query time by using the
    "fuziness" option of the match query.

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kruti Shukla <krutib...@gmail.com<javascript:>

wrote:

My final goal is to have following search precedence:

  1. Exact phrase match
  2. Exact word match with incremental distance
  3. Plurals
  4. Substring

Suppose I have following documents:
i. men’s shaver
ii. men’s shavers
iii. men’s foil shaver
iv. men’s foils shaver
v. men’s foil shavers
vi. men’s foils shavers

*Case 1: *search for : “men’s foil shaver”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shaver <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + plural
  3. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + plural
  4. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    plurals
  5. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural (66%
    match)

*Case 2: *search for : “men’s foil shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66%
    match)

Case 3: search for : “men’s foils shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foils shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular (66%
    match)

Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this?
This question is related to my other question which is not answered yet.
Link to my other question "
Redirecting to Google Groups
".

Any suggestion would help!
Thank you.

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Any help?
Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:37:09 AM UTC-4, Kruti Shukla wrote:

Hi Radu,

Thank you so for the suggestions. I was knowing mul-field but was not
knowing how helpful it can be but now I'm able play with the multi field
feature.
I tried following suggestion and created index and mapping accordingly.

I tried querying for first 2. First one was simple and second one with
slop. It is not returning correct slop(i,e, incremental distance).
Please help/suggest query improvements.

Please see my settings below:

*For index: *
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index" -d'
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"trigrams_filter": {
"type": "ngram",
"min_gram": 1,
"max_gram": 50
},
"my_stemmer" : {
"type" : "stemmer",
"name" : "minimal_english"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"trigrams": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"trigrams_filter"
]
},
"my_stemmer_analyzer":{
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"my_stemmer"
]
}
}
}
}
}'

For mappings:
curl -XPUT "
http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_mapping"
-d'
{
"my_improved_index_type": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "multi_field",
"fields": {
"name_gram": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "trigrams"
},
"untouched": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name_stemmer":{
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_stemmer_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}

}'

Available documents:

  1. men’s shaver
  2. men’s shavers
  3. men’s foil shaver
    
  4. men’s foils shaver
  5. men’s foil shavers
  6. men’s foils shavers
  7. men's foil advanced shaver
  8. norelco men's foil advanced shaver

Query:
curl -XPOST "
http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_search"
-d'
{
"size": 30,
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name.untouched": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"operator": "and",
"type": "phrase",
"boost": "10"
}
}
},
{
"match_phrase": {
"name.name_stemmer": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"slop": 5
}
}
}
]
}
}
}'

Returned result:

  1. men's shaver --> correct
  2. men's shavers --> correct
  3. men's foils shaver --> NOT correct
  4. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  6. men's foil shaver --> NOT correct.

Expected result:

  1. men's shaver --> exact phrase match
  2. men's shavers --> ZERO word distance + 1 plural
  3. men's foil shaver --> 1 word distance
  4. men's foils shaver --> 1 word distance + 1 plural
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance
  6. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance

Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:26:02 AM UTC-4, Radu Gheorghe wrote:

Hi Kruti,

The short answer is yes, it is possible. Here's one way to do it:

Have the fields you search on as multi fieldhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html,
where you index them with various settings, like once not-analyzed for
exact matches, once with ngrams to account for typoes and so on. You can
query all those sub-fields, and use the multi-match query with best
fieldshttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-best-fieldsor the DisMax
queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-dis-max-query.htmlto wrap all those queries and take the best score (or the best score and a
factor of the other scores by using the tie breaker).

Now, for the specific requirements you have:

  1. For exact matching, you can skip analysis altogether, and set "index"
    to "not_anyzed". Alternatively, you could use the simple analyzerhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-simple-analyzer.html#analysis-simple-analyzer or
    something equally "harmless" to allow for some error. You could boost this
    kind of query a lot, so that exact matches come out on top
  2. For phrase matches with distance, you can use the match_phrase type
    of the match queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#_phrase.
    You can configure a slop that defines the maximum allowed distance for
    a match to show up in your results. Documents with "closer" words should
    get higher scores. You would boost this query less than the exact matches,
    but more than the following.
  3. For handling plurals, you'd probably need to do some stemming. Have a
    look at the snowball token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.htmlor the stemmer
    token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.html#analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.
    Again, this would be boosted lower than 1) and 2), but more than 4)
  4. For handling substrings, you can use ngrams, as you already seem to be
    doing. Alternatively, you can pay the price at query time by using the
    "fuziness" option of the match query.

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kruti Shukla krutib...@gmail.comwrote:

My final goal is to have following search precedence:

  1. Exact phrase match
  2. Exact word match with incremental distance
  3. Plurals
  4. Substring

Suppose I have following documents:
i. men’s shaver
ii. men’s shavers
iii. men’s foil shaver
iv. men’s foils shaver
v. men’s foil shavers
vi. men’s foils shavers

*Case 1: *search for : “men’s foil shaver”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shaver <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + plural
  3. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + plural
  4. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    plurals
  5. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural (66%
    match)

*Case 2: *search for : “men’s foil shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Case 3: search for : “men’s foils shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foils shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this?
This question is related to my other question which is not answered yet.
Link to my other question "
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Hello,

The exact match vs plural is probably because of the stemmer. As you have
your fields and queries now, Elasticsearch has no way to boost individual
exact word matches higher. To fix this, you can add another field where you
just analyze the text using the standard analyzer (no stemming). Then add
that to another query within your bool and exact word matches should be
ranked higher. Though I would do a simple match for that (no phrase), to
account for the case where one word is exact and one is plural -> such a
document should be ranked higher than if both are plurals. You'll get that
with standard match because it looks for all terms, while match_phrase will
try to match the phrase with the given slop and none of those two documents
will get hit.

I don't know why the higher distance document is scored higher in your case

  • the 6th result should have been higher. Can you try with an index of one
    shard and see if results are any different?

Either way, you should get an explanation for each document's score by
enabling Explain:

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Kruti Shukla krutibhatt17@gmail.com wrote:

Any help?
Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:37:09 AM UTC-4, Kruti Shukla wrote:

Hi Radu,

Thank you so for the suggestions. I was knowing mul-field but was not
knowing how helpful it can be but now I'm able play with the multi field
feature.
I tried following suggestion and created index and mapping accordingly.

I tried querying for first 2. First one was simple and second one with
slop. It is not returning correct slop(i,e, incremental distance).
Please help/suggest query improvements.

Please see my settings below:

*For index: *
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index" -d'
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"trigrams_filter": {
"type": "ngram",
"min_gram": 1,
"max_gram": 50
},
"my_stemmer" : {
"type" : "stemmer",
"name" : "minimal_english"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"trigrams": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"trigrams_filter"
]
},
"my_stemmer_analyzer":{
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"my_stemmer"
]
}
}
}
}
}'

For mappings:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_
index_type/_mapping" -d'
{
"my_improved_index_type": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "multi_field",
"fields": {
"name_gram": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "trigrams"
},
"untouched": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name_stemmer":{
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_stemmer_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}

}'

Available documents:

  1. men’s shaver
  2. men’s shavers
  3. men’s foil shaver
    
  4. men’s foils shaver
  5. men’s foil shavers
  6. men’s foils shavers
  7. men's foil advanced shaver
  8. norelco men's foil advanced shaver

Query:
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_
index_type/_search" -d'
{
"size": 30,
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name.untouched": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"operator": "and",
"type": "phrase",
"boost": "10"
}
}
},
{
"match_phrase": {
"name.name_stemmer": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"slop": 5
}
}
}
]
}
}
}'

Returned result:

  1. men's shaver --> correct
  2. men's shavers --> correct
  3. men's foils shaver --> NOT correct
  4. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  6. men's foil shaver --> NOT correct.

Expected result:

  1. men's shaver --> exact phrase match
  2. men's shavers --> ZERO word distance + 1 plural
  3. men's foil shaver --> 1 word distance
  4. men's foils shaver --> 1 word distance + 1 plural
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance
  6. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance

Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:26:02 AM UTC-4, Radu Gheorghe wrote:

Hi Kruti,

The short answer is yes, it is possible. Here's one way to do it:

Have the fields you search on as multi fieldhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html,
where you index them with various settings, like once not-analyzed for
exact matches, once with ngrams to account for typoes and so on. You can
query all those sub-fields, and use the multi-match query with best
fieldshttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-best-fieldsor the DisMax
queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-dis-max-query.htmlto wrap all those queries and take the best score (or the best score and a
factor of the other scores by using the tie breaker).

Now, for the specific requirements you have:

  1. For exact matching, you can skip analysis altogether, and set "index"
    to "not_anyzed". Alternatively, you could use the simple analyzerhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-simple-analyzer.html#analysis-simple-analyzer or
    something equally "harmless" to allow for some error. You could boost this
    kind of query a lot, so that exact matches come out on top
  2. For phrase matches with distance, you can use the match_phrase type
    of the match queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#_phrase.
    You can configure a slop that defines the maximum allowed distance
    for a match to show up in your results. Documents with "closer" words
    should get higher scores. You would boost this query less than the exact
    matches, but more than the following.
  3. For handling plurals, you'd probably need to do some stemming. Have a
    look at the snowball token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.htmlor the stemmer
    token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.html#analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.
    Again, this would be boosted lower than 1) and 2), but more than 4)
  4. For handling substrings, you can use ngrams, as you already seem to
    be doing. Alternatively, you can pay the price at query time by using the
    "fuziness" option of the match query.

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kruti Shukla krutib...@gmail.comwrote:

My final goal is to have following search precedence:

  1. Exact phrase match
  2. Exact word match with incremental distance
  3. Plurals
  4. Substring

Suppose I have following documents:
i. men’s shaver
ii. men’s shavers
iii. men’s foil shaver
iv. men’s foils shaver
v. men’s foil shavers
vi. men’s foils shavers

*Case 1: *search for : “men’s foil shaver”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shaver <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + plural
  3. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + plural
  4. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    plurals
  5. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural
    (66% match)

*Case 2: *search for : “men’s foil shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Case 3: search for : “men’s foils shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foils shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this?
This question is related to my other question which is not answered yet.
Link to my other question "https://groups.google.com/
forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/
elasticsearch/ui9OR7JARs4/Mp3oOtTqY0EJ".

Any suggestion would help!
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Hi Radu,
Thank you so much for your reply and suggestion. It is really helping me
solving my query as well as knowledge on elasticsearch.

I now have index on only 1 shard. Results are some what improved.
Added one more field with "standard" analyzer.

PUT /my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_mapping
{
"my_improved_index_type": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "multi_field",
"fields": {
"name_gram": {
"type": "string",
"index_analyzer": "trigrams"
},
"untouched": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name_stemmer":{
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_stemmer_analyzer"
},
"name_standard":{

  •               "type": "string",*
    
  •               "analyzer": "standard"*
             }
          }
       }
    }
    
    }

}

There are still problem with return result.
Query:

curl -XPOST
"http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_search" -d'
{
"size": 30,
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name.untouched": {
"query": "men"s foil shaver",
"operator": "and",
"type": "phrase",
"boost": "10"
}
}
},
{
"match_phrase": {
"name.name_stemmer": {
"query": "men"s foil shaver",
"slop": 5
}
}
},
* {*

  •           "match": {*
    
  •              "name.name_standard": {*
    
  •                 "query": "men\"s foil shaver"*
    
  •              }*
    
  •           }*
    
  •        }*
       ]
    }
    
    }
    }'

Returned result:

  1. men's foil shaver --> score: 4.4437184
  2. men's foils shaver --> socre: 0.5215846
  3. men's foil advanced shaver --> score: 0.49008065 * --> should be 4th*
  4. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> score: 0.42882058 * --> should be
    5th*
    5. men's shaver --> score: 0.04429976 --> should be 6th
    6. men’s foil shavers --> score: 0.010844119 --> should be 3rd
  5. men's shavers --> score: 0.010372223

Please suggest.. I tried having explain = true..but did not help much.

Below is the explanation for 6th return result "men's foil shavers":

{
"_shard": 0,
"_node": "VRNH3VrlTC2Tu6y_GgDZbw",
"_index": "my_improved_index",
"_type": "my_improved_index_type",
"_id": "35",
"_score": 0.010844119,
"_source": {
"name": "men’s foil shavers"
},
"_explanation": {
"value": 0.010844119,
"description": "product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.032532357,
"description": "sum of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.032532357,
"description": "product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.09759706,
"description": "sum of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.09759706,
"description":
"weight(name.name_standard:foil in 26) [PerFieldSimilarity], result of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.09759706,
"description":
"score(doc=26,freq=1.0 = termFreq=1.0\n), product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.07266014,
"description":
"queryWeight, product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 2.686399,
"description":
"idf(docFreq=4, maxDocs=27)"
},
{
"value":
0.027047412,
"description":
"queryNorm"
}
]
},
{
"value": 1.3431995,
"description":
"fieldWeight in 26, product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 1,
"description":
"tf(freq=1.0), with freq of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 1,

"description": "termFreq=1.0"
}
]
},
{
"value": 2.686399,
"description":
"idf(docFreq=4, maxDocs=27)"
},
{
"value": 0.5,
"description":
"fieldNorm(doc=26)"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"value": 0.33333334,
"description": "coord(1/3)"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"value": 0.33333334,
"description": "coord(1/3)"
}
]
}
}

On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:30:03 AM UTC-4, Radu Gheorghe wrote:

Hello,

The exact match vs plural is probably because of the stemmer. As you have
your fields and queries now, Elasticsearch has no way to boost individual
exact word matches higher. To fix this, you can add another field where you
just analyze the text using the standard analyzer (no stemming). Then add
that to another query within your bool and exact word matches should be
ranked higher. Though I would do a simple match for that (no phrase), to
account for the case where one word is exact and one is plural -> such a
document should be ranked higher than if both are plurals. You'll get that
with standard match because it looks for all terms, while match_phrase will
try to match the phrase with the given slop and none of those two documents
will get hit.

I don't know why the higher distance document is scored higher in your
case - the 6th result should have been higher. Can you try with an index of
one shard and see if results are any different?

Either way, you should get an explanation for each document's score by
enabling Explain:

Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Kruti Shukla <krutib...@gmail.com<javascript:>

wrote:

Any help?
Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:37:09 AM UTC-4, Kruti Shukla wrote:

Hi Radu,

Thank you so for the suggestions. I was knowing mul-field but was not
knowing how helpful it can be but now I'm able play with the multi field
feature.
I tried following suggestion and created index and mapping accordingly.

I tried querying for first 2. First one was simple and second one with
slop. It is not returning correct slop(i,e, incremental distance).
Please help/suggest query improvements.

Please see my settings below:

*For index: *
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index" -d'
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"trigrams_filter": {
"type": "ngram",
"min_gram": 1,
"max_gram": 50
},
"my_stemmer" : {
"type" : "stemmer",
"name" : "minimal_english"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"trigrams": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"trigrams_filter"
]
},
"my_stemmer_analyzer":{
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"my_stemmer"
]
}
}
}
}
}'

For mappings:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_
index_type/_mapping" -d'
{
"my_improved_index_type": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "multi_field",
"fields": {
"name_gram": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "trigrams"
},
"untouched": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name_stemmer":{
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_stemmer_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}

}'

Available documents:

  1. men’s shaver
  2. men’s shavers
  3. men’s foil shaver
    
  4. men’s foils shaver
  5. men’s foil shavers
  6. men’s foils shavers
  7. men's foil advanced shaver
  8. norelco men's foil advanced shaver

Query:
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_
index_type/_search" -d'
{
"size": 30,
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name.untouched": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"operator": "and",
"type": "phrase",
"boost": "10"
}
}
},
{
"match_phrase": {
"name.name_stemmer": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"slop": 5
}
}
}
]
}
}
}'

Returned result:

  1. men's shaver --> correct
  2. men's shavers --> correct
  3. men's foils shaver --> NOT correct
  4. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  6. men's foil shaver --> NOT correct.

Expected result:

  1. men's shaver --> exact phrase match
  2. men's shavers --> ZERO word distance + 1 plural
  3. men's foil shaver --> 1 word distance
  4. men's foils shaver --> 1 word distance + 1 plural
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance
  6. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance

Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:26:02 AM UTC-4, Radu Gheorghe wrote:

Hi Kruti,

The short answer is yes, it is possible. Here's one way to do it:

Have the fields you search on as multi fieldhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html,
where you index them with various settings, like once not-analyzed for
exact matches, once with ngrams to account for typoes and so on. You can
query all those sub-fields, and use the multi-match query with best
fieldshttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-best-fieldsor the DisMax
queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-dis-max-query.htmlto wrap all those queries and take the best score (or the best score and a
factor of the other scores by using the tie breaker).

Now, for the specific requirements you have:

  1. For exact matching, you can skip analysis altogether, and set
    "index" to "not_anyzed". Alternatively, you could use the simple
    analyzerhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-simple-analyzer.html#analysis-simple-analyzer or
    something equally "harmless" to allow for some error. You could boost this
    kind of query a lot, so that exact matches come out on top
  2. For phrase matches with distance, you can use the match_phrase type
    of the match queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#_phrase.
    You can configure a slop that defines the maximum allowed distance
    for a match to show up in your results. Documents with "closer" words
    should get higher scores. You would boost this query less than the exact
    matches, but more than the following.
  3. For handling plurals, you'd probably need to do some stemming. Have
    a look at the snowball token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.htmlor the stemmer
    token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.html#analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.
    Again, this would be boosted lower than 1) and 2), but more than 4)
  4. For handling substrings, you can use ngrams, as you already seem to
    be doing. Alternatively, you can pay the price at query time by using the
    "fuziness" option of the match query.

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kruti Shukla krutib...@gmail.comwrote:

My final goal is to have following search precedence:

  1. Exact phrase match
  2. Exact word match with incremental distance
  3. Plurals
  4. Substring

Suppose I have following documents:
i. men’s shaver
ii. men’s shavers
iii. men’s foil shaver
iv. men’s foils shaver
v. men’s foil shavers
vi. men’s foils shavers

*Case 1: *search for : “men’s foil shaver”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shaver <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + plural
  3. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + plural
  4. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    plurals
  5. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural
    (66% match)

*Case 2: *search for : “men’s foil shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foil shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with
    1 word distance + singular
  4. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Case 3: search for : “men’s foils shavers”
Expected result:

  1. men’s foils shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men’s foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men’s foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 1
    word distance + singular
  4. men’s foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men’s shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men’s shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this?
This question is related to my other question which is not answered
yet.
Link to my other question "https://groups.google.com/
forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/
elasticsearch/ui9OR7JARs4/Mp3oOtTqY0EJ".

Any suggestion would help!
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I tried changing tokenizer from "standard" to "whitespace". In the mapping
I separated "index_analyzer" to use my customer analyzer and
search_analyzer to use default standard analyzer. Still the results are not
improved.
Explanation is also not that helpful.

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Kruti Shukla krutibhatt17@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Radu,
Thank you so much for your reply and suggestion. It is really helping me
solving my query as well as knowledge on elasticsearch.

I now have index on only 1 shard. Results are some what improved.
Added one more field with "standard" analyzer.

PUT /my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_mapping
{
"my_improved_index_type": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "multi_field",
"fields": {
"name_gram": {
"type": "string",
"index_analyzer": "trigrams"
},
"untouched": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name_stemmer":{
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_stemmer_analyzer"
},
"name_standard":{

  •               "type": "string",*
    
  •               "analyzer": "standard"*
             }
          }
       }
    }
    
    }

}

There are still problem with return result.
Query:

curl -XPOST "
http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_type/_search"
-d'
{
"size": 30,
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name.untouched": {
"query": "men"s foil shaver",
"operator": "and",
"type": "phrase",
"boost": "10"
}
}
},
{
"match_phrase": {
"name.name_stemmer": {
"query": "men"s foil shaver",
"slop": 5
}
}
},
* {*

  •           "match": {*
    
  •              "name.name_standard": {*
    
  •                 "query": "men\"s foil shaver"*
    
  •              }*
    
  •           }*
    
  •        }*
       ]
    }
    
    }
    }'

Returned result:

  1. men's foil shaver --> score: 4.4437184
  2. men's foils shaver --> socre: 0.5215846
  3. men's foil advanced shaver --> score: 0.49008065 * --> should be 4th*
  4. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> score: 0.42882058 * --> should
    be 5th*
    5. men's shaver --> score: 0.04429976 --> should be 6th
    6. men's foil shavers --> score: 0.010844119 --> should be 3rd
  5. men's shavers --> score: 0.010372223

Please suggest.. I tried having explain = true..but did not help much.

Below is the explanation for 6th return result "men's foil shavers":

{
"_shard": 0,
"_node": "VRNH3VrlTC2Tu6y_GgDZbw",
"_index": "my_improved_index",
"_type": "my_improved_index_type",
"_id": "35",
"_score": 0.010844119,
"_source": {
"name": "men's foil shavers"
},
"_explanation": {
"value": 0.010844119,
"description": "product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.032532357,
"description": "sum of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.032532357,
"description": "product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.09759706,
"description": "sum of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.09759706,
"description":
"weight(name.name_standard:foil in 26) [PerFieldSimilarity], result of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.09759706,
"description":
"score(doc=26,freq=1.0 = termFreq=1.0\n), product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 0.07266014,
"description":
"queryWeight, product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 2.686399,
"description":
"idf(docFreq=4, maxDocs=27)"
},
{
"value":
0.027047412,
"description":
"queryNorm"
}
]
},
{
"value": 1.3431995,
"description":
"fieldWeight in 26, product of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 1,
"description":
"tf(freq=1.0), with freq of:",
"details": [
{
"value": 1,

"description": "termFreq=1.0"
}
]
},
{
"value": 2.686399,
"description":
"idf(docFreq=4, maxDocs=27)"
},
{
"value": 0.5,
"description":
"fieldNorm(doc=26)"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
]
},
{
"value": 0.33333334,
"description": "coord(1/3)"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"value": 0.33333334,
"description": "coord(1/3)"
}
]
}
}

On Friday, May 2, 2014 8:30:03 AM UTC-4, Radu Gheorghe wrote:

Hello,

The exact match vs plural is probably because of the stemmer. As you have
your fields and queries now, Elasticsearch has no way to boost individual
exact word matches higher. To fix this, you can add another field where you
just analyze the text using the standard analyzer (no stemming). Then add
that to another query within your bool and exact word matches should be
ranked higher. Though I would do a simple match for that (no phrase), to
account for the case where one word is exact and one is plural -> such a
document should be ranked higher than if both are plurals. You'll get that
with standard match because it looks for all terms, while match_phrase will
try to match the phrase with the given slop and none of those two documents
will get hit.

I don't know why the higher distance document is scored higher in your
case - the 6th result should have been higher. Can you try with an index of
one shard and see if results are any different?

Either way, you should get an explanation for each document's score by
enabling Explain:
Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic
reference/current/search-request-explain.html

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Kruti Shukla krutib...@gmail.com wrote:

Any help?
Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:37:09 AM UTC-4, Kruti Shukla wrote:

Hi Radu,

Thank you so for the suggestions. I was knowing mul-field but was not
knowing how helpful it can be but now I'm able play with the multi field
feature.
I tried following suggestion and created index and mapping accordingly.

I tried querying for first 2. First one was simple and second one with
slop. It is not returning correct slop(i,e, incremental distance).
Please help/suggest query improvements.

Please see my settings below:

*For index: *
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index" -d'
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"trigrams_filter": {
"type": "ngram",
"min_gram": 1,
"max_gram": 50
},
"my_stemmer" : {
"type" : "stemmer",
"name" : "minimal_english"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"trigrams": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"trigrams_filter"
]
},
"my_stemmer_analyzer":{
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"standard",
"lowercase",
"my_stemmer"
]
}
}
}
}
}'

For mappings:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_
type/_mapping" -d'
{
"my_improved_index_type": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "multi_field",
"fields": {
"name_gram": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "trigrams"
},
"untouched": {
"type": "string",
"index": "not_analyzed"
},
"name_stemmer":{
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "my_stemmer_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}

}'

Available documents:

  1. men's shaver
  2. men's shavers
  3. men's foil shaver
    
  4. men's foils shaver
  5. men's foil shavers
  6. men's foils shavers
  7. men's foil advanced shaver
  8. norelco men's foil advanced shaver

Query:
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/my_improved_index/my_improved_index_
type/_search" -d'
{
"size": 30,
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"name.untouched": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"operator": "and",
"type": "phrase",
"boost": "10"
}
}
},
{
"match_phrase": {
"name.name_stemmer": {
"query": "men"s shaver",
"slop": 5
}
}
}
]
}
}
}'

Returned result:

  1. men's shaver --> correct
  2. men's shavers --> correct
  3. men's foils shaver --> NOT correct
  4. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> NOT correct
  6. men's foil shaver --> NOT correct.

Expected result:

  1. men's shaver --> exact phrase match
  2. men's shavers --> ZERO word distance + 1 plural
  3. men's foil shaver --> 1 word distance
  4. men's foils shaver --> 1 word distance + 1 plural
  5. men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance
  6. norelco men's foil advanced shaver --> 2 word distance

Why higher distance document scored higher?
Is there any problem with stemmer or nGram settings?

On Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:26:02 AM UTC-4, Radu Gheorghe wrote:

Hi Kruti,

The short answer is yes, it is possible. Here's one way to do it:

Have the fields you search on as multi fieldhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/_multi_fields.html,
where you index them with various settings, like once not-analyzed for
exact matches, once with ngrams to account for typoes and so on. You can
query all those sub-fields, and use the multi-match query with best
fieldshttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-multi-match-query.html#type-best-fieldsor the DisMax
queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-dis-max-query.htmlto wrap all those queries and take the best score (or the best score and a
factor of the other scores by using the tie breaker).

Now, for the specific requirements you have:

  1. For exact matching, you can skip analysis altogether, and set
    "index" to "not_anyzed". Alternatively, you could use the simple
    analyzerhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-simple-analyzer.html#analysis-simple-analyzer or
    something equally "harmless" to allow for some error. You could boost this
    kind of query a lot, so that exact matches come out on top
  2. For phrase matches with distance, you can use the match_phrase
    type of the match queryhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html#_phrase.
    You can configure a slop that defines the maximum allowed distance
    for a match to show up in your results. Documents with "closer" words
    should get higher scores. You would boost this query less than the exact
    matches, but more than the following.
  3. For handling plurals, you'd probably need to do some stemming. Have
    a look at the snowball token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.htmlor the stemmer
    token filterhttp://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.html#analysis-stemmer-tokenfilter.
    Again, this would be boosted lower than 1) and 2), but more than 4)
  4. For handling substrings, you can use ngrams, as you already seem to
    be doing. Alternatively, you can pay the price at query time by using the
    "fuziness" option of the match query.

Best regards,
Radu

Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Kruti Shukla krutib...@gmail.comwrote:

My final goal is to have following search precedence:

  1. Exact phrase match
  2. Exact word match with incremental distance
  3. Plurals
  4. Substring

Suppose I have following documents:
i. men's shaver
ii. men's shavers
iii. men's foil shaver
iv. men's foils shaver
v. men's foil shavers
vi. men's foils shavers

*Case 1: *search for : "men's foil shaver"
Expected result:

  1. men's foil shaver <------ exact phrase match
  2. men's foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with
    0 word distance + plural
  3. men's foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with
    1 word distance + plural
  4. men's foils shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    plurals
  5. men's shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men's shavers <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + plural
    (66% match)

*Case 2: *search for : "men's foil shavers"
Expected result:

  1. men's foil shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men's foil shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with 0
    word distance + singular
  3. men's foils shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with
    1 word distance + singular
  4. men's foils shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men's shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men's shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Case 3: search for : "men's foils shavers"
Expected result:

  1. men's foils shavers <------ exact phrase match
  2. men's foils shaver <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with
    0 word distance + singular
  3. men's foil shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words with
    1 word distance + singular
  4. men's foil shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + 2
    singulars
  5. men's shavers <------ exact word match on 2 of 3 words (66% match)
  6. men's shaver <------ exact word match on 1 of 3 words + singular
    (66% match)

Is there any way in elasticsearch I can achieve this?
This question is related to my other question which is not answered
yet.
Link to my other question "https://groups.google.com/for
um/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/elasticsearch/
ui9OR7JARs4/Mp3oOtTqY0EJ".

Any suggestion would help!
Thank you.

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