elasticsearch boost importance of exact phrase match

Question

Is there a way in elasticsearch to boost the importance of the exact phrase appearing in the the document?

For example if I was searching for the phrase \"web develo

Answer 1

You could try using rescore to run an exact phrase match on your initial results. From the docs:

"Rescoring can help to improve precision by reordering just the top (eg 100 - 500) documents returned by the query and post_filter phases, using a secondary (usually more costly) algorithm, instead of applying the costly algorithm to all documents in the index."

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-rescore.html