The Problem
I am working on an autocompleter using ElasticSearch 6.2.3. I would like my query results (a list of pages with a Name field) to be ordered using the following priority:
Prefix match at start of "Name" (Prefix query)
Any other exact (whole word) match within "Name" (Term query)
Fuzzy match (this is currently done on a different field to Name using a ngram tokenizer ... so I assume cannot be relevant to my problem but I would like to apply this on the Name field as well)
My Attempted Solution
I will be using a Bool/Should query consisting of three queries (corresponding to the three priorities above), using boost to define relative importance.
The issue I am having is with the Prefix query - it appears to not be lowercasing the search query despite my search analyzer having the lowercase filter. For example, the below query returns "Harry Potter" for 'harry' but returns zero results for 'Harry':
{ "query": { "prefix": { "Name.raw" : "Harry" } } }
I have verified using the _analyze API that both my analyzers do indeed lowercase the text "Harry" to "harry". Where am I going wrong?
From the ES documentation I understand I need to analyze the Name field in two different ways to enable use of both Prefix and Term queries:
using the "keyword" tokenizer to enable the Prefix query (I have applied this on a .raw field)
using a standard analyzer to enable the Term (I have applied this on the Name field)
I have checked duplicate questions such as this one but the answers have not helped
My mapping and settings are below
ES Index Mapping
{
"myIndex": {
"mappings": {
"pages": {
"properties": {
"Id": {},
"Name": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"raw": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "keywordAnalyzer",
"search_analyzer": "pageSearchAnalyzer"
}
},
"analyzer": "pageSearchAnalyzer"
},
"Tokens": {}, // Other fields not important for this question
}
}
}
}
}
ES Index Settings
{
"myIndex": {
"settings": {
"index": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"ngram": {
"type": "edgeNGram",
"min_gram": "2",
"max_gram": "15"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"keywordAnalyzer": {
"filter": [
"trim",
"lowercase",
"asciifolding"
],
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "keyword"
},
"pageSearchAnalyzer": {
"filter": [
"trim",
"lowercase",
"asciifolding"
],
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard"
},
"pageIndexAnalyzer": {
"filter": [
"trim",
"lowercase",
"asciifolding",
"ngram"
],
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard"
}
}
},
"number_of_replicas": "1",
"uuid": "l2AXoENGRqafm42OSWWTAg",
"version": {}
}
}
}
}
Prefix queries don't analyze the search terms, so the text you pass into it bypasses whatever would be used as the search analyzer (in your case, the configured search_analyzer: pageSearchAnalyzer) and evaluates Harry as-is directly against the keyword-tokenized, custom-filtered harry potter that was the result of the keywordAnalyzer applied at index time.
In your case here, you'll need to do one of a few different things:
Since you're using a lowercase filter on the field, you could just always use lowercase terms in your prefix query (using application-side lowercasing if necessary)
Run a match query against an edge_ngram-analyzed field instead of a prefix query like described in the ES search_analyzer docs
Here's an example of the latter:
1) Create the index w/ ngram analyzer and (recommended) standard search analyzer
PUT my_index
{
"settings": {
"index": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"ngram": {
"type": "edgeNGram",
"min_gram": "2",
"max_gram": "15"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"pageIndexAnalyzer": {
"filter": [
"trim",
"lowercase",
"asciifolding",
"ngram"
],
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "keyword"
}
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"pages": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"ngram": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "pageIndexAnalyzer",
"search_analyzer": "standard"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
2) Index some sample docs
POST my_index/pages/_bulk
{"index":{}}
{"name":"Harry Potter"}
{"index":{}}
{"name":"Hermione Granger"}
3) Run the a match query against the ngram field
POST my_index/pages/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"query": "Har",
"operator": "and"
}
}
}
I think it is better to use match_phrase_prefix query without using .keyword suffix. Check the docs at here https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query-phrase-prefix.html
Related
Main question
The user is looking for a name and enters the part of the it, let's say au, and the document with the text paul is found.
I would like to have the doc highlighted like p<em>au</em>l.
How can I achieve it if I have a complex search query (combination of match, prefix, wildcard to rule relevance)?
Sub question
When do highlight settings from documentation for type, boundary_scanner and boundary_chars come into play? As per my tests described below, these settings don't change highlighted part.
Try 1: Wildcard query with default analyzer
PUT myindex
{
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "text",
"term_vector": "with_positions_offsets"
}
}
}
}
POST myindex/_doc/1
{
"name": "paul"
}
GET myindex/_search
{
"query": {
"wildcard": {"name": "*au*"}
},
"highlight": {
"fields": {
"name": {}
},
"type": "fvh",
"boundary_scanner": "chars",
"boundary_chars": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.,!? \t\n"
}
}
This kind of search returns highlight <em>paul</em> but I need to get p<em>au</em>l.
Try 2: Match query with NGRAM analyzer
This one works as described in SO question: Highlighting part of word in elasticsearch
PUT myindexngram
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"tokenizer": {
"ngram_tokenizer": {
"type": "nGram",
"min_gram": "2",
"max_gram": "3",
"token_chars": [
"letter",
"digit"
]
}
},
"analyzer": {
"index_ngram_analyzer": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "ngram_tokenizer",
"filter": [
"lowercase"
]
},
"search_term_analyzer": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "keyword",
"filter": "lowercase"
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "index_ngram_analyzer",
"term_vector": "with_positions_offsets"
}
}
}
}
POST myindexngram/_doc/1
{
"name": "paul"
}
GET myindexngram/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {"name": "au"}
},
"highlight": {
"fields": {
"name": {}
}
}
}
This highlights p<em>au</em>l as desired but:
Highlighting depends on the query type, so combining match and wildcard will again result in <em>paul</em>.
Highlighting is not affected at all on type, boundary_scanner and boundary_chars settings.
Elastic version 7.13.4
Response from Elasticsearch team:
A highlighter works on terms, so only full terms can be highlighted - whatever are the terms in your index. In your second example, au could be highlighted, because it it a term in the index, which is not the case for your first example.
There is also an option to define your own highlight_query that could be different from the main query, but this could lead to unpredictable highlights.
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-highlighted-part/295164
In ElasticSearch v5.2.2 I can search for "Jo*" using Wildcard and it will match the index value containing "Joseph"
But what if my index also has these values "Joseph","Jo", "Jos", "Jose" and "Josep" and I want to reverse the query.
How can I find "Jo", "Jos", "Jose" and "Josep" in the index using the string "Joseph" as search criteria?
That's possible, but you need to create an edgeNGram search analyzer in your index settings.
First create the settings like this. The name field will be indexed with the standard analyzer but searched with your custom prefix_search analyzer instead.
PUT test
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"prefix_search": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"lowercase",
"prefix"
]
}
},
"filter": {
"prefix": {
"type": "edgeNGram",
"min_gram": 1,
"max_gram": 10
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"doc": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "standard",
"search_analyzer": "prefix_search"
}
}
}
}
}
Then if you create a document like this:
PUT test/doc/1
{
"name": "Jos"
}
You can find it with a query like this one:
POST /test/doc/_search
{
"query": {
"match": {
"name": "Joseph"
}
}
}
I use elasticsearch ngram
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"desc_ngram": {
"type": "ngram",
"min_gram": 3,
"max_gram": 8
}
},
"analyzer": {
"index_ngram": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "keyword",
"filter": [ "desc_ngram", "lowercase" ]
},
"search_ngram": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "keyword",
"filter": "lowercase"
}
}
}
And I have 2 objects here
{
"name": "Shana Calandra",
"username": "shacalandra",
},
{
"name": "Shana Launer",
"username": "shalauner",
},
And using this query
{
query: {
match: {
_all: "Shana"
}
}
}
When I search with this query, it returns me both documents, but I cant search by part of word here, for example I cant use "Shan" instead of "Shana" in query because it doesnt return anything.
Maybe my mapping is wrong, I cant understand problem is on mapping or on query
If you specify
"mappings": {
"test": {
"_all": {
"index_analyzer": "index_ngram",
"search_analyzer": "search_ngram"
},
for your mapping of _all field then it will work. _all has its own analyzers and I suspect you used the analyzers just for name and username and not for _all.
I have very simple query:
POST /indexX/document/_search
{
"query": {
"match_phrase_prefix": {
"surname": "grab"
}
}
}
with mapping:
"surname": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "polish",
"copy_to": [
"full_name"
]
}
and definition for index (I use Stempel (Polish) Analysis for Elasticsearch plugin):
POST /indexX
{
"settings": {
"index": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"synonym" : {
"type": "synonym",
"synonyms_path": "analysis/synonyms.txt"
},
"polish_stop": {
"type": "stop",
"stopwords_path": "analysis/stopwords.txt"
},
"polish_my_stem": {
"type": "stemmer",
"rules_path": "analysis/stems.txt"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"polish_with_synonym": {
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": [
"synonym",
"lowercase",
"polish_stop",
"polish_stem",
"polish_my_stem"
]
}
}
}
}
}
}
For this query I get zero results. When I change phrase to GRA or GRABA it returns 1 result (GRABARZ is the surname). Why is this happening?
I tried max_expansions with values even as high as 1200 and that didn't help.
At the first glance, your analyzer stems the search term ("grab") and renders it unusable ("grabić").
Without going into details on how to resolve this, please consider getting rid of polish analyzer here. We are talking about people's names, not "ordinary" polish words.
I saw different techniques used in this case: multi-field searches, fuzzy searches, phonetic searches, dedicated plugins.
Some links:
https://www.elastic.co/blog/multi-field-search-just-got-better
http://www.basistech.com/fuzzy-search-names-in-elasticsearch/
https://www.found.no/play/gist/6c6434c9c638a8596efa
But I guess in case of polish names some kind of prefix query on non-analyzed field would suffice...
I'm starting to learn Elasticsearch and now I am trying to write my first analyser configuration. What I want to achieve is that substrings are found if they are at the beginning or ending of a word. If I have the word "stackoverflow" and I search for "stack" I want to find it and when I search for "flow" I want to find it, but I do not want to find it when searching for "ackov" (in my use case this would not make sense).
I know there is the "Edge n gram tokenizer", but one analyser can only have one tokenizer and the edge n-gram can either be front or back (but not both at the same time).
And if I understood correctly, applying both version of the "Edge ngram filter" (front and back) to the analyzer, then I would not find either, because both filters need to return true, isn't it? Because "stack" wouldn't be in the ending of the word, so the back edge n gram filter would return false and the word "stackoverflow" would not be found.
So, how do I configure my analyzer to find substrings either in the end or in the beginning of a word, but not in the middle?
What can be done is to define two analyzers, one for matching at the start of a string and another to match at the end of a string. In the index settings below, I named the former one prefix_edge_ngram_analyzer and the latter one suffix_edge_ngram_analyzer. Those two analyzers can be applied to a multi-field string field to the text.prefix sub-field, respectively to the text.suffix string field.
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"prefix_edge_ngram_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "prefix_edge_ngram_tokenizer",
"filter": ["lowercase"]
},
"suffix_edge_ngram_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "keyword",
"filter" : ["lowercase","reverse","suffix_edge_ngram_filter","reverse"]
}
},
"tokenizer": {
"prefix_edge_ngram_tokenizer": {
"type": "edgeNGram",
"min_gram": "2",
"max_gram": "25"
}
},
"filter": {
"suffix_edge_ngram_filter": {
"type": "edgeNGram",
"min_gram": 2,
"max_gram": 25
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"test_type": {
"properties": {
"text": {
"type": "string",
"fields": {
"prefix": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "prefix_edge_ngram_analyzer"
},
"suffix": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "suffix_edge_ngram_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
Then let's say we index the following test document:
PUT test_index/test_type/1
{ "text": "stackoverflow" }
We can then search either by prefix or suffix using the following queries:
# input is "stack" => 1 result
GET test_index/test_type/_search?q=text.prefix:stack OR text.suffix:stack
# input is "flow" => 1 result
GET test_index/test_type/_search?q=text.prefix:flow OR text.suffix:flow
# input is "ackov" => 0 result
GET test_index/test_type/_search?q=text.prefix:ackov OR text.suffix:ackov
Another way to query with the query DSL:
POST test_index/test_type/_search
{
"query": {
"multi_match": {
"query": "stack",
"fields": [ "text.*" ]
}
}
}
UPDATE
If you already have a string field, you can "upgrade" it to a multi-field and create the two required sub-fields with their analyzers. The way to do this would be to do this in order:
Close your index in order to create the analyzers
POST test_index/_close
Update the index settings
PUT test_index/_settings
{
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"prefix_edge_ngram_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "prefix_edge_ngram_tokenizer",
"filter": ["lowercase"]
},
"suffix_edge_ngram_analyzer": {
"tokenizer": "keyword",
"filter" : ["lowercase","reverse","suffix_edge_ngram_filter","reverse"]
}
},
"tokenizer": {
"prefix_edge_ngram_tokenizer": {
"type": "edgeNGram",
"min_gram": "2",
"max_gram": "25"
}
},
"filter": {
"suffix_edge_ngram_filter": {
"type": "edgeNGram",
"min_gram": 2,
"max_gram": 25
}
}
}
}
Re-open your index
POST test_index/_open
Finally, update the mapping of your text field
PUT test_index/_mapping/test_type
{
"properties": {
"text": {
"type": "string",
"fields": {
"prefix": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "prefix_edge_ngram_analyzer"
},
"suffix": {
"type": "string",
"analyzer": "suffix_edge_ngram_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}
You still need to re-index all your documents in order for the new sub-fields text.prefix and text.suffix to be populated and analyzed.