First, some background. I understand that the algorithmic stemmer is not perfect, e.g. "focused" is stemmed to "focus," while "focus" is stemmed to "focu," which I've validated by looking through the term vectors. However, when I execute queries like: GET /_search { "query": { "que…

Why is a wildcard query string matching on stemmed terms?

cphramington (Chris) November 8, 2023, 10:54pm 5

The explanation was right in front of me the whole time. "analyze_wildcard" does, in fact, analyze the wildcard.

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