# Payload scoring in elasticsearch?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-scoring-in-elasticsearch/297878
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 22, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-scoring-in-elasticsearch/297878 "2022-02-22T10:58:27Z")
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### Author:  [@pauloamed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pauloamed)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2022, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-scoring-in-elasticsearch/297878/1 "2022-02-22T10:58:28Z")
Hey!
I've been trying to write a custom text scoring function in Elasticsearch and I can't find a way to do it. I want to weight the score of each query term with a payload passed inside the query. How can I do it using elastichsearch?
There are similar posts to this, but neither of them with answers:
> [@Payload Scoring in ElasticSearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-scoring-in-elasticsearch/143431):
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> Solr has specific feature to allow scoring based on payload - {!payload\_score f=payload\_field func=sum operator=or}A B C [https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7\_1/other-parsers.html#payload-score-parser](https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_1/other-parsers.html#payload-score-parser) Is there any similar functionality in ES, which can allow scoring based on terms in payload field and , score can be a sum of payloads.
> [@Using payloads for scoring](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-payloads-for-scoring/219476):
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> I am working on a research project in which I need to use some specific term weights for relevance score calculation. I have indexed the term weights as payloads along with the text and looks something like this : "Americans|5.432 to|0.000 rate|5.466 their|6.080 ideology|3.303 on|0.000 a|0.000 liberal-to-conservative|0.000 scale|3.455 of|0.000 1|0.000 to|0.000 5.|0.000 The|0.000 average|5.201 " Now, I want to use these term weights in the relevance score calculation. I was searching for it and…
Is it an open issue?
Cheers,
Paulo
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### Author:  [@Tomo\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tomo_M)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-scoring-in-elasticsearch/297878/2 "2022-02-22T16:48:06Z")
Hi,
It is a bit more complex than weight terms by payload, [Function score](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-function-score-query.html) does not help you?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-scoring-in-elasticsearch/297878/3 "2022-03-22T16:48:42Z")
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