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Reputation: 4389

Elasticsearch - how to fuzzy match phrase when search keyword has no spaces?

I want to match a document whose field title has value brown fox by searching with keyword brownfox.

When trying this fuzzy query I get no results:

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/haystack/_search?pretty' -d '{
    "query" : {
        "fuzzy" : {
            "title": {
                "value": "brownfox",
                "fuzziness": 2,
                "prefix_length": 0,
                "max_expansions": 10000
            }
        }
    }
}'

I also tried a match query with fuzziness and operator and:

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/haystack/_search?pretty' -d '{
    "query": {
      "match": {
        "title": {
          "query":     "brownfox",
          "fuzziness": "AUTO",
          "operator":  "and"
        }
      }
    }
}'

This returns results with similar keywords, but not the document with title brown fox which I would consider a better match.

I also read the answer to this SO question, but I don't have the option to update the analyzer of the field with synonyms, since I want to match other similar cases too, including both missing spaces and mis-spelled words.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1465

Answers (1)

Andrei Stefan
Andrei Stefan

Reputation: 52366

The mapping of that title field should, at least, have an analyzer that would keep "brown fox" as a single term. If it's using standard analyzer or anything that is not keeping brown fox as a whole you'll not be able to match that.

Upvotes: 1

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