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[[search-suggesters-phrase]]
=== Phrase Suggester
NOTE: In order to understand the format of suggestions, please
read the <<search-suggesters>> page first.
The `term` suggester provides a very convenient API to access word
alternatives on a per token basis within a certain string distance. The API
allows accessing each token in the stream individually while
suggest-selection is left to the API consumer. Yet, often pre-selected
suggestions are required in order to present to the end-user. The
`phrase` suggester adds additional logic on top of the `term` suggester
to select entire corrected phrases instead of individual tokens weighted
based on `ngram-language` models. In practice this suggester will be
able to make better decisions about which tokens to pick based on
co-occurrence and frequencies.
==== API Example
In general the `phrase` suggester requires special mapping up front to work.
The `phrase` suggester examples on this page need the following mapping to
work. The `reverse` analyzer is used only in the last example.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
PUT test
{
"settings": {
"index": {
"number_of_shards": 1,
"analysis": {
"analyzer": {
"trigram": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": ["standard", "shingle"]
},
"reverse": {
"type": "custom",
"tokenizer": "standard",
"filter": ["standard", "reverse"]
}
},
"filter": {
"shingle": {
"type": "shingle",
"min_shingle_size": 2,
"max_shingle_size": 3
}
}
}
}
},
"mappings": {
"test": {
"properties": {
"title": {
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"trigram": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "trigram"
},
"reverse": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "reverse"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
POST test/test
{"title": "noble warriors"}
POST test/test
{"title": "nobel prize"}
POST _refresh
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTSETUP
Once you have the analyzers and mappings set up you can use the `phrase`
suggester in the same spot you'd use the `term` suggester:
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _suggest?pretty -d'
{
"text": "noble prize",
"simple_phrase": {
"phrase": {
"field": "title.trigram",
"size": 1,
"gram_size": 3,
"direct_generator": [ {
"field": "title.trigram",
"suggest_mode": "always"
} ],
"highlight": {
"pre_tag": "<em>",
"post_tag": "</em>"
}
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
The response contains suggestions scored by the most likely spell
correction first. In this case we received the expected correction
`xorr the god jewel` first while the second correction is less
conservative where only one of the errors is corrected. Note, the
request is executed with `max_errors` set to `0.5` so 50% of the terms
can contain misspellings (See parameter descriptions below).
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
{
"_shards": ...
"simple_phrase" : [
{
"text" : "noble prize",
"offset" : 0,
"length" : 11,
"options" : [ {
"text" : "nobel prize",
"highlighted": "<em>nobel</em> prize",
"score" : 0.40765354
}]
}
]
}
--------------------------------------------------
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"_shards": .../"_shards": "$body._shards",/]
==== Basic Phrase suggest API parameters
[horizontal]
`field`::
the name of the field used to do n-gram lookups for the
language model, the suggester will use this field to gain statistics to
score corrections. This field is mandatory.
`gram_size`::
sets max size of the n-grams (shingles) in the `field`.
If the field doesn't contain n-grams (shingles) this should be omitted
or set to `1`. Note that Elasticsearch tries to detect the gram size
based on the specified `field`. If the field uses a `shingle` filter the
`gram_size` is set to the `max_shingle_size` if not explicitly set.
`real_word_error_likelihood`::
the likelihood of a term being a
misspelled even if the term exists in the dictionary. The default is
`0.95` corresponding to 5% of the real words are misspelled.
`confidence`::
The confidence level defines a factor applied to the
input phrases score which is used as a threshold for other suggest
candidates. Only candidates that score higher than the threshold will be
included in the result. For instance a confidence level of `1.0` will
only return suggestions that score higher than the input phrase. If set
to `0.0` the top N candidates are returned. The default is `1.0`.
`max_errors`::
the maximum percentage of the terms that at most
considered to be misspellings in order to form a correction. This method
accepts a float value in the range `[0..1)` as a fraction of the actual
query terms or a number `>=1` as an absolute number of query terms. The
default is set to `1.0` which corresponds to that only corrections with
at most 1 misspelled term are returned. Note that setting this too high
can negatively impact performance. Low values like `1` or `2` are recommended
otherwise the time spend in suggest calls might exceed the time spend in
query execution.
`separator`::
the separator that is used to separate terms in the
bigram field. If not set the whitespace character is used as a
separator.
`size`::
the number of candidates that are generated for each
individual query term Low numbers like `3` or `5` typically produce good
results. Raising this can bring up terms with higher edit distances. The
default is `5`.
`analyzer`::
Sets the analyzer to analyse to suggest text with.
Defaults to the search analyzer of the suggest field passed via `field`.
`shard_size`::
Sets the maximum number of suggested term to be
retrieved from each individual shard. During the reduce phase, only the
top N suggestions are returned based on the `size` option. Defaults to
`5`.
`text`::
Sets the text / query to provide suggestions for.
`highlight`::
Sets up suggestion highlighting. If not provided then
no `highlighted` field is returned. If provided must
contain exactly `pre_tag` and `post_tag` which are
wrapped around the changed tokens. If multiple tokens
in a row are changed the entire phrase of changed tokens
is wrapped rather than each token.
`collate`::
Checks each suggestion against the specified `query` to prune suggestions
for which no matching docs exist in the index. The collate query for a
suggestion is run only on the local shard from which the suggestion has
been generated from. The `query` must be specified, and it is run as
a <<query-dsl-template-query,`template` query>>.
The current suggestion is automatically made available as the `{{suggestion}}`
variable, which should be used in your query. You can still specify
your own template `params` -- the `suggestion` value will be added to the
variables you specify. Additionally, you can specify a `prune` to control
if all phrase suggestions will be returned, when set to `true` the suggestions
will have an additional option `collate_match`, which will be `true` if
matching documents for the phrase was found, `false` otherwise.
The default value for `prune` is `false`.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _suggest
{
"text" : "noble prize",
"simple_phrase" : {
"phrase" : {
"field" : "title.trigram",
"size" : 1,
"direct_generator" : [ {
"field" : "title.trigram",
"suggest_mode" : "always",
"min_word_length" : 1
} ],
"collate": {
"query": { <1>
"inline" : {
"match": {
"{{field_name}}" : "{{suggestion}}" <2>
}
}
},
"params": {"field_name" : "title"}, <3>
"prune": true <4>
}
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
<1> This query will be run once for every suggestion.
<2> The `{{suggestion}}` variable will be replaced by the text
of each suggestion.
<3> An additional `field_name` variable has been specified in
`params` and is used by the `match` query.
<4> All suggestions will be returned with an extra `collate_match`
option indicating whether the generated phrase matched any
document.
==== Smoothing Models
The `phrase` suggester supports multiple smoothing models to balance
weight between infrequent grams (grams (shingles) are not existing in
the index) and frequent grams (appear at least once in the index).
[horizontal]
`stupid_backoff`::
a simple backoff model that backs off to lower
order n-gram models if the higher order count is `0` and discounts the
lower order n-gram model by a constant factor. The default `discount` is
`0.4`. Stupid Backoff is the default model.
`laplace`::
a smoothing model that uses an additive smoothing where a
constant (typically `1.0` or smaller) is added to all counts to balance
weights, The default `alpha` is `0.5`.
`linear_interpolation`::
a smoothing model that takes the weighted
mean of the unigrams, bigrams and trigrams based on user supplied
weights (lambdas). Linear Interpolation doesn't have any default values.
All parameters (`trigram_lambda`, `bigram_lambda`, `unigram_lambda`)
must be supplied.
==== Candidate Generators
The `phrase` suggester uses candidate generators to produce a list of
possible terms per term in the given text. A single candidate generator
is similar to a `term` suggester called for each individual term in the
text. The output of the generators is subsequently scored in combination
with the candidates from the other terms to for suggestion candidates.
Currently only one type of candidate generator is supported, the
`direct_generator`. The Phrase suggest API accepts a list of generators
under the key `direct_generator` each of the generators in the list are
called per term in the original text.
==== Direct Generators
The direct generators support the following parameters:
[horizontal]
`field`::
The field to fetch the candidate suggestions from. This is
a required option that either needs to be set globally or per
suggestion.
`size`::
The maximum corrections to be returned per suggest text token.
`suggest_mode`::
The suggest mode controls what suggestions are included on the suggestions
generated on each shard. All values other than `always` can be thought of
as an optimization to generate fewer suggestions to test on each shard and
are not rechecked at when combining the suggestions generated on each
shard. Thus `missing` will generate suggestions for terms on shards that do
not contain them even other shards do contain them. Those should be
filtered out using `confidence`. Three possible values can be specified:
** `missing`: Only generate suggestions for terms that are not in the
shard. This is the default.
** `popular`: Only suggest terms that occur in more docs on the shard then
the original term.
** `always`: Suggest any matching suggestions based on terms in the
suggest text.
`max_edits`::
The maximum edit distance candidate suggestions can have
in order to be considered as a suggestion. Can only be a value between 1
and 2. Any other value result in an bad request error being thrown.
Defaults to 2.
`prefix_length`::
The number of minimal prefix characters that must
match in order be a candidate suggestions. Defaults to 1. Increasing
this number improves spellcheck performance. Usually misspellings don't
occur in the beginning of terms. (Old name "prefix_len" is deprecated)
`min_word_length`::
The minimum length a suggest text term must have in
order to be included. Defaults to 4. (Old name "min_word_len" is deprecated)
`max_inspections`::
A factor that is used to multiply with the
`shards_size` in order to inspect more candidate spell corrections on
the shard level. Can improve accuracy at the cost of performance.
Defaults to 5.
`min_doc_freq`::
The minimal threshold in number of documents a
suggestion should appear in. This can be specified as an absolute number
or as a relative percentage of number of documents. This can improve
quality by only suggesting high frequency terms. Defaults to 0f and is
not enabled. If a value higher than 1 is specified then the number
cannot be fractional. The shard level document frequencies are used for
this option.
`max_term_freq`::
The maximum threshold in number of documents a
suggest text token can exist in order to be included. Can be a relative
percentage number (e.g 0.4) or an absolute number to represent document
frequencies. If an value higher than 1 is specified then fractional can
not be specified. Defaults to 0.01f. This can be used to exclude high
frequency terms from being spellchecked. High frequency terms are
usually spelled correctly on top of this also improves the spellcheck
performance. The shard level document frequencies are used for this
option.
`pre_filter`::
a filter (analyzer) that is applied to each of the
tokens passed to this candidate generator. This filter is applied to the
original token before candidates are generated.
`post_filter`::
a filter (analyzer) that is applied to each of the
generated tokens before they are passed to the actual phrase scorer.
The following example shows a `phrase` suggest call with two generators,
the first one is using a field containing ordinary indexed terms and the
second one uses a field that uses terms indexed with a `reverse` filter
(tokens are index in reverse order). This is used to overcome the limitation
of the direct generators to require a constant prefix to provide
high-performance suggestions. The `pre_filter` and `post_filter` options
accept ordinary analyzer names.
[source,js]
--------------------------------------------------
POST _suggest
{
"text" : "obel prize",
"simple_phrase" : {
"phrase" : {
"field" : "title.trigram",
"size" : 1,
"direct_generator" : [ {
"field" : "title.trigram",
"suggest_mode" : "always"
}, {
"field" : "title.reverse",
"suggest_mode" : "always",
"pre_filter" : "reverse",
"post_filter" : "reverse"
} ]
}
}
}
--------------------------------------------------
// CONSOLE
`pre_filter` and `post_filter` can also be used to inject synonyms after
candidates are generated. For instance for the query `captain usq` we
might generate a candidate `usa` for term `usq` which is a synonym for
`america` which allows to present `captain america` to the user if this
phrase scores high enough.