# Query with boost by fields an term proximity (similar to EDISMAX in SOLR)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-boost-by-fields-an-term-proximity-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16843>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 7, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-boost-by-fields-an-term-proximity-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16843 "2014-04-07T13:30:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niccolo\_Becchi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8edcca/32.png) [@Niccolo\_Becchi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Niccolo_Becchi)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-boost-by-fields-an-term-proximity-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16843/1 "2014-04-07T13:30:40Z")

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Is there anyway to configure a query in a similar way as edismax in SOLR  
that's taking care about term proximity and boosting by fields?  
I have spend days but actually I haven't found any good solution with  
elasticsearch

That's an example of edismax in SOLR (  
[http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax](http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax) ):

```
params.set("q", "london market bonds");
params.set("qf", "subject title^5");
params.set("pf", "subject^10 title^50");
params.set("ps", "10");
params.set("pf2", "subject^5 title^25");
params.set("ps2", "20");
params.set("mm", "2");
params.set("tie", "0.8");

```

It's translated in the following Lucene query:

+(  
(  
(title:london^5.0 | subject:london)~0.8  
(title:market^5.0 | subject:market)~0.8  
(title:bonds^5.0 | subject:bond)~0.8  
)  
~2  
)  
(subject:"london market bond"~10^10.0)~0.8  
(title:"london market bonds"~10^50.0)~0.8  
(  
(subject:"london market"~20^5.0)~0.8  
(subject:"market bond"~20^5.0)~0.8  
)  
(  
(title:"london market"~20^25.0)~0.8  
(title:"market bonds"~20^25.0)~0.8  
)

With the new Multiple query strings in elasticsearch 1.1 (  
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/multi-query-strings.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/multi-query-strings.html)  
) you can do something similar, but you have no control on the terms  
proximity.  
So, looking for two terms, there is no difference if the two terms are far.

Thanks  
Niccolo

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**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, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-boost-by-fields-an-term-proximity-similar-to-edismax-in-solr/16843/2 "2017-07-06T01:37:49Z")

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