Multi-word query time synonyms in elasticsearch.
# delete old index if exists
curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/syns?pretty'
# create index with synonym analyzer and mapping
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns?pretty' -d '{
"settings" : {
"number_of_replicas": 0,
"number_of_shards": 1,
"index": {
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"synonym": {
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": ["standard", "lowercase", "stop", "synonym"]
}
},
"filter": {
"synonym": {
"type": "synonym",
"synonyms": [
"spider man => spiderman"
]
}
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"test": {
"properties": {
"text": {"type": "string", "index_analyzer": "standard", "search_analyzer": "synonym"}
}
}
}
}'
# index the test documents
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/1?pretty' -d '{"text": "the adventures of spiderman"}'
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/2?pretty' -d '{"text": "what hath man wrought?"}'
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/3?pretty&refresh=true' -d '{"text": "spiders eat insects"}'
# working query, finds correct document #1
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/syns/test/_search?pretty' -d '{"query": {"match": {"text": "spider man"}}}'