# Search similar words in a big text **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 9, 2014, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-similar-words-in-a-big-text/18546 "2014-07-09T07:10:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jorge\_von\_Rudno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@Jorge\_von\_Rudno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jorge_von_Rudno)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-similar-words-in-a-big-text/18546/1 "2014-07-09T07:10:27Z")
Hi everybody!!! first of all I want to comment that at the moment I am a beginner in elasticsearch. so, I have the following situation and I don't know if it is possible to solve with elasticsearch. I have a Index that contains for every document the content of a web page. I want to develop a query where I give a text and it return the part of the field that contains the text. Perhaps with one example I can explain me better. document 1: field\_Id: 1 content : "This is one example to search a _text_ in a long string" document 2: field\_id: 2 content : "The second example help us to _texting_ the function to search" If I send the word "tex" I will expect to have the return: "text", "texting". Please tell me if elasticsearch is as powerful that can solve this or if I have to implement an algorithm to solve it. In advance thanks a lot. Regards Jorge von Rudno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/571daeee-5889-4a01-8ce8-3f3fc91eee92%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/571daeee-5889-4a01-8ce8-3f3fc91eee92%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vineeth_mohan_2/32/747_2.png) [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-similar-words-in-a-big-text/18546/2 "2014-07-09T07:26:54Z")
Hello Jorge , Here please expand your requirement specifications. There are couple of things out there which will help you 1. Stemmers - It will convert all words like "Run , running , ran" -\> into its baseform . That is run. ES has support for snowball and porterstem stemmers - [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.html#analysis-snowball-tokenfilter) 2. Find similar words like spell check and all using fuzzy query - [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-fuzzy-query.html#query-dsl-fuzzy-query) 3. Find words which will look similar when pronounced - Like cool and kool. Phonetic tokenizer - [GitHub - elastic/elasticsearch-analysis-phonetic: Phonetic Analysis Plugin for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-analysis-phonetic) 4. And the last one , the particular example you have quoted , i believe you need to use shingle or NGram ( [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-shingle-tokenfilter.html#analysis-shingle-tokenfilter) , [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-ngram-tokenfilter.html) ) Thanks Vineeth On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jorge von Rudno \< [jorge.vonrudno.gp@googlemail.com](mailto:jorge.vonrudno.gp@googlemail.com)\> wrote: > Hi everybody!!! > > first of all I want to comment that at the moment I am a beginner in > elasticsearch. so, I have the following situation and I don't know if it is > possible to solve with elasticsearch. > > I have a Index that contains for every document the content of a web page. > I want to develop a query where I give a text and it return the part of the > field that contains the text. Perhaps with one example I can explain me > better. > > document 1: > field\_Id: 1 > content : "This is one example to search a _text_ in a long string" > > document 2: > field\_id: 2 > content : "The second example help us to _texting_ the function to search" > > If I send the word "tex" I will expect to have the return: "text", > "texting". > > Please tell me if elasticsearch is as powerful that can solve this or if I > have to implement an algorithm to solve it. > > In advance thanks a lot. > > Regards > > Jorge von Rudno > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/571daeee-5889-4a01-8ce8-3f3fc91eee92%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/571daeee-5889-4a01-8ce8-3f3fc91eee92%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/571daeee-5889-4a01-8ce8-3f3fc91eee92%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/571daeee-5889-4a01-8ce8-3f3fc91eee92%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5kEDV9bJbEqcjaQP-UDNF0VYPQT68YH%2BkPzG7V0ox6Lcw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5kEDV9bJbEqcjaQP-UDNF0VYPQT68YH%2BkPzG7V0ox6Lcw%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Jorge\_von\_Rudno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@Jorge\_von\_Rudno](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jorge_von_Rudno)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-similar-words-in-a-big-text/18546/3 "2014-07-09T08:36:14Z")
On 07/09/2014 09:26 AM, vineeth mohan wrote: > Hello Jorge , > > Here please expand your requirement specifications. > There are couple of things out there which will help you > > 1. Stemmers - It will convert all words like "Run , running , ran" -\> > into its baseform . That is run. ES has support for snowball and > porterstem stemmers > - [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-snowball-tokenfilter.html#analysis-snowball-tokenfilter) > > 2. Find similar words like spell check and all using fuzzy query > - [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-fuzzy-query.html#query-dsl-fuzzy-query) > > 3. Find words which will look similar when pronounced - Like cool and > kool. Phonetic tokenizer > - [GitHub - elastic/elasticsearch-analysis-phonetic: Phonetic Analysis Plugin for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-analysis-phonetic) > > 4. And the last one , the particular example you have quoted , i > believe you need to use shingle or NGram > ([Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-shingle-tokenfilter.html#analysis-shingle-tokenfilter) > , [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-ngram-tokenfilter.html)) > > Thanks > Vineeth > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Jorge von Rudno > \<[jorge.vonrudno.gp@googlemail.com](mailto:jorge.vonrudno.gp@googlemail.com) > [mailto:jorge.vonrudno.gp@googlemail.com](mailto:jorge.vonrudno.gp@googlemail.com)\> wrote: > > ``` > Hi everybody!!! > > first of all I want to comment that at the moment I am a beginner > in elasticsearch. so, I have the following situation and I don't > know if it is possible to solve with elasticsearch. > > I have a Index that contains for every document the content of a > web page. I want to develop a query where I give a text and it > return the part of the field that contains the text. Perhaps with > one example I can explain me better. > > document 1: > field_Id: 1 > content : "This is one example to search a _*text*_ in a long string" > > document 2: > field_id: 2 > content : "The second example help us to _*texting*_ the function > to search" > > If I send the word "tex" I will expect to have the return: "text", > "texting". > > Please tell me if elasticsearch is as powerful that can solve this > or if I have to implement an algorithm to solve it. > > In advance thanks a lot. > > Regards > > Jorge von Rudno > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/571daeee-5889-4a01-8ce8-3f3fc91eee92%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > ``` > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/jraNffR8iAA/unsubscribe](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/jraNffR8iAA/unsubscribe). > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com) > [mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5kEDV9bJbEqcjaQP-UDNF0VYPQT68YH%2BkPzG7V0ox6Lcw%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5kEDV9bJbEqcjaQP-UDNF0VYPQT68YH%2BkPzG7V0ox6Lcw%40mail.gmail.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5kEDV9bJbEqcjaQP-UDNF0VYPQT68YH%2BkPzG7V0ox6Lcw%40mail.gmail.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAGdPd5kEDV9bJbEqcjaQP-UDNF0VYPQT68YH%2BkPzG7V0ox6Lcw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). hello Vieeeth, thanks a lot for your great support, I will work with your suggestions and I will tell you about the result. Best regards Jorge von Rudno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/53BCFEFE.2000708%40gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/53BCFEFE.2000708%40gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 1:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-similar-words-in-a-big-text/18546/4 "2017-07-06T01:17:04Z")