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Keil
Keil

Reputation: 220

elasticsearch handling typos

is it possible elasticsearch to handle queries containing typos. Example

trying to query "colthes" would return results of "clothes"

If that's possible, how to do it ? (which analyzer? which tokenizer? which filter?)

Could you show an example? Is it possible to apply the configuration for non-english languages (i'm looking for french)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4567

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 17629

Yes it is certainly possible. A working example for french can be seen on this site, which uses Elasticsearch as a back-end. For example by searching for "abbendice" the query returns "appendice" (appendix in english). Specifically what you're looking for is the fuzzy query.

Be aware though that it may not be suitable depending on the size of data you're trying to index. Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 3

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