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Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x

You're reading from   Mastering Elasticsearch 5.x Master the intricacies of Elasticsearch 5 and use it to create flexible and scalable search solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460189
Length 428 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Bharvi Dixit Bharvi Dixit
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Preface 1. Revisiting Elasticsearch and the Changes FREE CHAPTER 2. The Improved Query DSL 3. Beyond Full Text Search 4. Data Modeling and Analytics 5. Improving the User Search Experience 6. The Index Distribution Architecture 7. Low-Level Index Control 8. Elasticsearch Administration 9. Data Transformation and Federated Search 10. Improving Performance 11. Developing Elasticsearch Plugins 12. Introducing Elastic Stack 5.0

Correcting user spelling mistakes

One of the simplest ways to improve the user search experience is to correct spelling mistakes either automatically, or by just showing the correct query phrase and allowing the user to use it. For example, this is what Google shows us when we type in elasticsaerch instead of Elasticsearch:

Correcting user spelling mistakes

Starting from version 0.90.0 Beta1, Elasticsearch allows us to use the suggest API to correct user spelling mistakes. With the newer versions of Elasticsearch, the API was changed, bringing new features and becoming more and more powerful. In this section, we will try to bring you a comprehensive guide on how to use the suggest API provided by Elasticsearch, both in simple use cases and in ones that require more configuration.

Testing data

For the purposes of this section, we need a bit more data than a few documents. In order to get the data, we have decided to index some news documents from Wikipedia dump.

Let's follow the given steps for downloading and importing...

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