Elasticsearch: index a field with keyword tokenizer but without stopwords - elasticsearch

Question

I am looking for a way to search company names with keyword tokenizing but without stopwords.
For ex : The indexed company name is "Hansel und Gretel Gmbh."
Here "und" and "Gmbh" are stop words for the company name.
If the search term is "Hansel Gretel", that document should be found,
If the search term is "Hansel" then no document should be found. And if the search term is "hansel gmbh", the no document should be found as well.
I have tried to combine keywords tokenizer with stopwords in custom analyzer but it didnt work(as expected I guess).
I have also tried to use common terms query, but "Hansel" started to hit(again as expected)
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There are two ways bad and ugly. The first one uses regular expressions in order to remove stop words and trim spaces. There are a lot of drawbacks:
you have to support white-space tokenization(regexp(/s+)) and special symbol(.,;) removal by your own
no highlight is supported - keyword tokenizer does not support
case sensitivity is also a problem
normalizers(analyzers for keywords) are experimental feature - bad support, no features
Here is step-by-step example:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"normalizer": {
"custom_normalizer": {
"type": "custom",
"char_filter": ["stopword_char_filter", "trim_char_filter"],
"filter": ["lowercase"]
}
},
"char_filter": {
"stopword_char_filter": {
"type": "pattern_replace",
"pattern": "( ?und ?| ?gmbh ?)",
"replacement": " "
},
"trim_char_filter": {
"type": "pattern_replace",
"pattern": "(\\s+)$",
"replacement": ""
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"file": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "keyword",
"normalizer": "custom_normalizer"
}
}
}
}
}'
Now we can check how our analyzer works(please note that requests to normalyzer are supported only in ES 6.x)
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/test/_analyze" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"normalizer": "custom_normalizer",
"text": "hansel und gretel gmbh"
}'
Now we are ready to index our document:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test/file/1" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"name": "hansel und gretel gmbh"
}'
And the last step is search:
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/test/_search" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"query": {
"match" : {
"name" : {
"query" : "hansel gretel"
}
}
}
}'
Another approach is:
create standard text analyzer with stop words filter
use analysis to filter out all stop words and special symbols
concatenate tokens manually
send term to ES as keyword
Here is step-by-step example:
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"settings": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"custom_analyzer": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": ["lowercase", "custom_stopwords"]
}
}, "filter": {
"custom_stopwords": {
"type": "stop",
"stopwords": ["und", "gmbh"]
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"file": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "custom_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}'
Now we are ready to analyze our text:
POST test/_analyze
{
"analyzer": "custom_analyzer",
"text": "Hansel und Gretel Gmbh."
}
with the following result:
{
"tokens": [
{
"token": "hansel",
"start_offset": 0,
"end_offset": 6,
"type": "<ALPHANUM>",
"position": 0
},
{
"token": "gretel",
"start_offset": 11,
"end_offset": 17,
"type": "<ALPHANUM>",
"position": 2
}
]
}
The last step is token concatenation: hansel + gretel. The only drawback is manual analysis with custom code.