# Semantic search

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search/128718
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 19, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search/128718 "2018-04-19T14:02:51Z")
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### Author: ![asmael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@asmael](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asmael)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search/128718/1 "2018-04-19T14:02:51Z")

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hello  
is thier any plugin that helps to do semantic search with elasticsearch  
thank you

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### Author: ![softwaredoug](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/softwaredoug/32/22681_2.png) [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search/128718/2 "2018-04-19T14:20:00Z")

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Depends what you mean by semantic search. Generally mapping phrases to concepts is non trivial and requires domain expertise

I would recommend this series of blog articles

[https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/12/02/solr-elasticsearch-synonyms-better-patterns-keyphrases/](https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/12/02/solr-elasticsearch-synonyms-better-patterns-keyphrases/)

[https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/12/23/elasticsearch-synonyms-patterns-taxonomies/](https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2016/12/23/elasticsearch-synonyms-patterns-taxonomies/)

And this talk(uses Solr but same ideas apply)

[https://youtu.be/90F30PS-884](https://youtu.be/90F30PS-884)

Don’t trust vendors that can just “give you semantic search”. Sadly this stuff has no silver bullets.

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### Author: ![asmael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@asmael](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asmael)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search/128718/3 "2018-04-19T15:20:01Z")

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what I mean is for exemple if I search with the term " sport" it gives for example "footbal" , "basketball" ...  
without adding synonyms

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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: [May 17, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/semantic-search/128718/4 "2018-05-17T15:20:11Z")

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