Search documents have at least one word in a list in ElasticSearch - elasticsearch

Question

I would like to search documents with 1) some phrases that must exist in one of three fields 2) and a list words in which at least one of them occurs in one of the fields, such as ['supply', 'procure', 'purchase'].
Below is the current ES query I use which meets the first requirement. However, how should I add the word list in this query?
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"multi_match": {
"query": "ford",
"fields": [
"title",
"description",
"news_content"
]
}
},
{
"multi_match": {
"query": "lone star",
"fields": [
"title",
"description",
"news_content"
],
"type": "phrase"
}
}
]
}
}
}

Answer 1

You are almost there, just add operator OR in your query, which would solve your second use case of list words in which at least one of them occurs in one of the fields,
Let me show if you by an example:
Index def
{
"mappings" :{
"properties" :{
"title" :{
"type" : "text"
},
"description":{
"type" : "text"
}
}
}
}
Index sample doc
{
"title" : "foo",
"description": "opster"
}
{
"title" : "bar",
"description": "stackoverflow"
}
{
"title" : "baz",
"description": "nodesc"
}
Search query, notice I am searching for foo amit, list of words so atleast one of them should match in any of 2 fields
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"should": {
"multi_match": {
"query": "foo amit",
"fields": [
"title",
"description"
],
"operator": "or" --> notice operator OR
}
}
}
}
}
Search result
"hits": [
{
"_index": "white",
"_type": "_doc",
"_id": "1",
"_score": 0.9808291,
"_source": {
"title": "foo", --> notice this match as `foo` is present and we used opertor OR in query.
"description": "opster"
}
}
]