Precise similarity-based scoring?

Hi,

I'm working on a task to reproduce a (already working in another
infrastructure) algorithm of detecting document inter-similarity
in a big array of documents, trying to benefit from ElasticSearch's speed
versus own own sloppy index.

Each incoming document gets split into 4-grams (shingles), throwing away
all words less than 4 characters long on the way. In our own
version of the algorithm, this creates patterns unique enough to match them
one-by-one. Final score from document A to document B is
number of matching shingles in A and B divided by total number of shingles.
Precision of the algorithm is good enough for us at the
moment.

Is there any way to reproduce this scheme in ES?

We've tried doing so using:

  • More like this
  • Split document A into shingles, then create query like

{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"match": {
"content": "shingle1"
}
},
{
"match": {
"content": "shingle2"
}
},

etc., with all the shingles.

While the result we get is quite similar to one we receive from our
algorithm, there's no way to map the score to some absolute scale (like
from 1 to 100, with score absolute according to all documents in set). The
closest candidate to what we're looking for is finding the ID of document
A, using it's match score as 100%, then recalculating all scores relative
to this one.

However, the current similarity scheme is not really reverse-mappable into
our scale. What direction should we look up to - hacking some scoring
parameters or going straight to writing our own similarity plugin?

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