# Text Phrase Query **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 10, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552 "2011-10-10T14:16:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_nemsadze/32/3114_2.png) [@Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Nemsadze)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/1 "2011-10-10T14:16:24Z")
Hello We want to get the functionality of text\_phrase\_prefix but with highlights. To search exact matching of phrase without ending last word. Suppose we have indexed following text: Elasticsearch works perfectly for us. Scenario 1: Search String: ElasticSearch works Result: Entry was found Scenario 2: Search String: ElasticSearch perfectly Result: No entry was found Scenario 3: Search String: ElasticSearch wor Result: Entry was found Scenario 4: Search String: ElasticS Result: Entry was found Scenario 5: Search String: ElasticS wor Result: No entry was found Any suggestions implementing this? Thanks in advnace ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/2 "2011-10-10T14:25:10Z")
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 07:16 -0700, Alexander Nemsadze wrote: > Hello > > We want to get the functionality of text\_phrase\_prefix but with > highlights. To search exact matching of phrase without ending last > word. > Any suggestions implementing this? A simple regex on the the highlighted phrase would work, eg, in Perl (assuming your highlighting uses _tags):_ _s{_([^\<\s]+)}{\1}g clint ---
**Author:** ![Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_nemsadze/32/3114_2.png) [@Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Nemsadze)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/3 "2011-10-10T14:35:25Z")
Hello, thanks for your response, but in fact we are trying to pass the query string to Elasticsearch, not processing local strings. Elastic search makes highlight for you adding start and end tags to it. On Oct 10, 6:25 pm, Clinton Gormley [cl...@traveljury.com](mailto:cl...@traveljury.com) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 07:16 -0700, Alexander Nemsadze wrote: > > > Hello > > > We want to get the functionality of text\_phrase\_prefix but with > > highlights. To search exact matching of phrase without ending last > > word. > > Any suggestions implementing this? > > A simple regex on the the highlighted phrase would work, eg, in Perl > (assuming your highlighting uses _tags):_ > > > > _s{_([^\<\s]+)}{\1}g > > clint ---
**Author:** ![Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_nemsadze/32/3114_2.png) [@Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Nemsadze)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/4 "2011-10-10T14:41:38Z")
We want to get exact functionality of text\_phrase query, except it must be allowed not finishing last word. ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/5 "2011-10-10T15:20:40Z")
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 07:35 -0700, Alexander Nemsadze wrote: > Hello, thanks for your response, but in fact we are trying to pass the > query string to Elasticsearch, not processing local strings. > Elastic search makes highlight for you adding start and end tags to > it. Hi Alexander My regex was for post-processing results from elasticsearch to achieve what you want, ie instead of a search for "lang" returning "a _lang_uage in common use" my regex would convert that to "a _language_ in common use" which is what you want clint ---
**Author:** ![Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_nemsadze/32/3114_2.png) [@Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Nemsadze)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/6 "2011-10-10T15:46:20Z")
Thanks for that solution, but my problem is that I have no "a _lang_uage in common use" highlighted text returned from elasticsearch, as text\_phrase does not search anything when entering part of the word. text\_phrase\_prefix works perfectly for me, except highlight, no highlight is returned when I enter one word and half part of the second word, for example - Steve Jo - will return entry, but no highlight part exists in response JSON. If I enter - Ste - everything is OK. On Oct 10, 7:20 pm, Clinton Gormley [cl...@traveljury.com](mailto:cl...@traveljury.com) wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 07:35 -0700, Alexander Nemsadze wrote: > > > Hello, thanks for your response, but in fact we are trying to pass the > > query string to Elasticsearch, not processing local strings. > > Elastic search makes highlight for you adding start and end tags to > > it. > > Hi Alexander > > My regex was for post-processing results from elasticsearch to achieve > what you want, ie instead of a search for "lang" returning > > "a _lang_uage in common use" > > my regex would convert that to > > "a _language_ in common use" > > which is what you want > > clint ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2011, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/7 "2011-10-10T16:02:45Z")
> text\_phrase\_prefix works perfectly for me, except highlight, no > highlight is returned when I enter one word and half part of the > second word, for example - Steve Jo - will return entry, but no > highlight part exists in response JSON. If I enter - Ste - everything > is OK. Ah right - apologies. I missed the fact that highlighting doesn't work at all with text\_phrase\_prefix. I don't know why this is the case. I suggest opening an issue clint ---
**Author:** ![Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexander_nemsadze/32/3114_2.png) [@Alexander\_Nemsadze](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexander_Nemsadze)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/8 "2011-10-11T06:13:49Z")
To explain in one more way, we want to get result elasticsearch to search for us exactly as database LIKE 'something mor%' query does and with highlights On Oct 10, 8:02 pm, Clinton Gormley [cl...@traveljury.com](mailto:cl...@traveljury.com) wrote: > > text\_phrase\_prefix works perfectly for me, except highlight, no > > highlight is returned when I enter one word and half part of the > > second word, for example - Steve Jo - will return entry, but no > > highlight part exists in response JSON. If I enter - Ste - everything > > is OK. > > Ah right - apologies. I missed the fact that highlighting doesn't work > at all with text\_phrase\_prefix. > > I don't know why this is the case. I suggest opening an issue > > clint ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/9 "2011-10-12T19:17:49Z")
Can you have term vectors stored for the field you highlight on, and see if it helps? You will need to reindex the data. Storing term vectors will cause a different highlighting implementation to be used (see here: [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/search/highlighting.html). On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Alexander Nemsadze \< [alexander.nemsadze@azry.com](mailto:alexander.nemsadze@azry.com)\> wrote: > To explain in one more way, we want to get result elasticsearch to > search for us exactly as database LIKE 'something mor%' query does and > with highlights > > On Oct 10, 8:02 pm, Clinton Gormley [cl...@traveljury.com](mailto:cl...@traveljury.com) wrote: > > > > text\_phrase\_prefix works perfectly for me, except highlight, no > > > highlight is returned when I enter one word and half part of the > > > second word, for example - Steve Jo - will return entry, but no > > > highlight part exists in response JSON. If I enter - Ste - everything > > > is OK. > > > > Ah right - apologies. I missed the fact that highlighting doesn't work > > at all with text\_phrase\_prefix. > > > > I don't know why this is the case. I suggest opening an issue > > > > clint ---
**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, 3:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/text-phrase-query/5552/10 "2017-07-06T03:52:16Z")