You should use analyze API to understand what elasticsearch is doing behind the scene: Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic
You will see what tokens produce your analyzer.
By the way, Is there a way to request a reindex to elasticsearch when the synonyms are changed?
You have to reindex yourself.
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Le 13 oct. 2013 à 23:47, bruno ais brunoaiss@gmail.com a écrit :
Ok, I got it now.
1st:
It seems like it is not doing index expansion. When I start an index with a synonyms file and then I store some information in it, if I do a boolean query search it is not matching the synonyms.
E.g. I have a synonym:
aaafoo => aaabar
So I expect when there's aaafoo I get aaafoo and aaabar (both) indexed.
When I search for aaafoo I don't get the result. (I also tried searching for aaabar and trying to get the aaafoo result to test it out).
Could it be that I'm doing something wrong int he way?
Query JSON:
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"search.searched": "aaafoo"
}
}
]
}
}
}
By the way, Is there a way to request a reindex to elasticsearch when the synonyms are changed?
On Sunday, October 13, 2013 10:19:22 PM UTC+1, bruno ais wrote:
On 13-10-2013 14:41, joergprante@gmail.com wrote:
The query method you describe is query expansion. Query expansion is the process of adding terms to a query before it is submitted for search.
Query expansion is not specific to Elasticsearch, it can be implemented in any search UI. Elasticsearch is expanding the index when using synonyms. As a result, the index is larger but synonyms are not required to be given in the query.
If you want query expansion, you could write a plugin for managing synonyms by your custom method.
Note that index expansion has advantages over query expansion. The searching is faster.
Jörg
Am 13.10.2013 15:23 schrieb "bruno ais" brunoaiss@gmail.com:
This is something I was unable to find out in the manual.
I have made some synonyms but I was unable to make it work so that when I search for something those synonyms are used in the search and are added to the search parameters
For example, if I add some synonyms to the file and then use the _analize API such that it includes the synonyms it find the synonyms properly but it does not give my any advice about how to replace them so I can't use that to enrich my search.
How do I use the synonym system for searching?
Here's an example of what I want:
If I search for:
"+random +string I wanted to +give"
And string and sentence are synonyms, then it would search for:
"+random +(string OR sentence) I wanted to +give" (or equivalent)
How do I do that?
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