Elasticsearch not returning singular/plural matches

Question

I am using a php library of elasticsearch to index and find documents in my website. This is the code for creating the index:

curl -XPUT \'http://localhost:9200/         


        

Answer 1

The default elascticsearch analyzer doesn't do stemming and this is what you need to handle plural/singular. You can try using Snowball Analyzer for your text fields to see if it works better for your use case:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/test' -d '{
    "settings" : {
        "index" : {
            "number_of_shards" : 1,
            "number_of_replicas" : 1
        }
    },
    "mappings" : {
        "page" : {
            "properties" : {
                "mytextfield": { "type": "string",  "analyzer": "snowball", "store": "yes"}
            }
        }
    }
}'