Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch allows you to use a filter to configure synonyms. The filter supports two synonym formats: Solr and WordNet.

Configuration example

PUT /test_index
{    
    "settings": {        
        "index" : {            
            "analysis" : {                
                "analyzer" : {                    
                    "synonym" : {                        
                        "tokenizer" : "whitespace",                       
                        "filter" : ["synonym"]                    
                        }               
                   },                
                   "filter" : {                    
                        "synonym" : {                       
                             "type" : "synonym",                        
                              "synonyms_path" : "analysis/synonym.txt",                                          
                              "tokenizer" : "whitespace"                    
                          }               
                       }            
                    }        
                  }    
          }
}

In this example, a synonym filter that contains synonym dictionary file path analysis/synonym.txt is configured in filter. This path indicates the location of config. For more information about parameters, see Synonym Token Filter in the open-source Elasticsearch documentation.

Solr synonyms

Configuration example:
# Blank lines and lines starting with pound are comments.
# Explicit mappings match any token sequence on the LHS of "=>"
# and replace with all alternatives on the RHS.  These types of mappings
# ignore the expand parameter in the schema.
# Examples:
i-pod, i pod => ipod,
sea biscuit, sea biscit => seabiscuit
# Equivalent synonyms may be separated with commas and give
# no explicit mapping.  In this case the mapping behavior will
# be taken from the expand parameter in the schema.  This allows
# the same synonym file to be used in different synonym handling strategies.
# Examples:
ipod, i-pod, i pod
foozball , foosball
universe , cosmos
lol, laughing out loud
# If expand==true, "ipod, i-pod, i pod" is equivalent
# to the explicit mapping:
ipod, i-pod, i pod => ipod, i-pod, i pod
# If expand==false, "ipod, i-pod, i pod" is equivalent
# to the explicit mapping:
ipod, i-pod, i pod => ipod
# Multiple synonym mapping entries are merged.
foo => foo bar
foo => baz
# is equivalent to
foo => foo bar, baz
You can also define synonyms in the filter, but you must use synonyms rather than synonyms_path. The sample code is as follows:
PUT /test_index
{
    "settings": {
        "index" : {
            "analysis" : {
                "filter" : {
                    "synonym" : {
                        "type" : "synonym",
                        "synonyms" : [
                            "i-pod, i pod => ipod",
                            "begin, start"
                        ]
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
Note We recommend that you use synonyms_path to define large synonym sets in the file.

WordNet synonyms

Configuration example:
PUT /test_index
{
    "settings": {
        "index" : {
            "analysis" : {
                "filter" : {
                    "synonym" : {
                        "type" : "synonym",
                        "format" : "wordnet",
                        "synonyms" : [
                            "s(100000001,1,'abstain',v,1,0).",
                            "s(100000001,2,'refrain',v,1,0).",
                            "s(100000001,3,'desist',v,1,0)."
                        ]
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

This example uses synonyms to define WordNet synonyms. You can also use synonyms_path to define WordNet synonyms.