# Using ES as a dictionary server - need advice **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 21, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-es-as-a-dictionary-server-need-advice/21763 "2015-01-21T22:02:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ElasticSearch\_Users\_](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ElasticSearch\_Users\_](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticSearch_Users_)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-es-as-a-dictionary-server-need-advice/21763/1 "2015-01-21T22:02:42Z")
I'm working on a solution that will act as a dictionary validator by performing the following: - input: phrase - processing: shingles phrase match with fuzziness - output: rewritten phrase - data: dictionary like, with entries that are short phrases up to 5 words (e.g "know it all", "merry go round") What's particular about this use case is that we don't care about TF / IDF and have another mechanism in mind to select an entry (but that's not the issue). The issue is that all started well, with queries involving a phrase suggester, direct generator and collation, but that's where we hit a snag with issues of fuzzy matches (edit distance \>0) ranking higher than exact matches... I've been discussing this in another thread ([https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/elasticsearch/bose/elasticsearch/dLdT90j1x74/zqJQiSlgHv8J](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/elasticsearch/bose/elasticsearch/dLdT90j1x74/zqJQiSlgHv8J)) but I wanted to present my use case a bit more clearly and see if there are any advices to achieve the purpose. I tried to use FLT, as kindly recommended by Mark Harwood but didn't figure out how to use it as phrase suggester. The key here I think is to control the scoring of the suggester, by not accounting for TF / IDF and instead just provide a ranking by a n-gram formula involving edit distance for further custom processing to select the right suggester entry. I looked at smoothing models, but everything seems to be based, to a +/- extent, on TF / IDF. Any advice would be appreciated! -- 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/82ed7214-0659-4140-a5cc-27c5905f1d7e%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/82ed7214-0659-4140-a5cc-27c5905f1d7e%40googlegroups.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, 12:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-es-as-a-dictionary-server-need-advice/21763/2 "2017-07-06T00:37:25Z")