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Ranking evaluation

Introduced 1.0

The rank eval endpoint allows you to evaluate the quality of ranked search results.

Path and HTTP methods

GET <index_name>/_rank_eval 
POST <index_name>/_rank_eval

Query parameters

Query parameters are optional.

Parameter Data type Description
ignore_unavailable Boolean Defaults to false. When set to false the response body will return an error if an index is closed or missing.
allow_no_indices Boolean Defaults to true. When set to false the response body will return an error if a wildcard expression points to indexes that are closed or missing.
expand_wildcards String Expand wildcard expressions for indexes that are open, closed, hidden, none, or all.
search_type String Set search type to either query_then_fetch or dfs_query_then_fetch.

Request fields

The request body must contain at least one parameter.

Field Type Description
id Document or template ID.
requests Set multiple search requests within the request field section.
ratings Document relevance score.
k The number of documents returned per query. Default is set to 10.
relevant_rating_threshold The threshold at which documents are considered relevant. Default is set to 1.
normalize Discounted cumulative gain will be calculated when set to true.
maximum_relevance Sets the maximum relevance score when using the expected reciprocal rank metric.
ignore_unlabeled Defaults to false. Unlabeled documents are ignored when set to true.
template_id Template ID.
params Parameters used in the template.

Example request

GET shakespeare/_rank_eval
{
  "requests": [
    {
      "id": "books_query",                        
      "request": {                                              
          "query": { "match": { "text": "thou" } }
      },
      "ratings": [                                              
        { "_index": "shakespeare", "_id": "80", "rating": 0 },
        { "_index": "shakespeare", "_id": "115", "rating": 1 },
        { "_index": "shakespeare", "_id": "117", "rating": 2 }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "words_query",
      "request": {
        "query": { "match": { "text": "art" } }
      },
      "ratings": [
        { "_index": "shakespeare", "_id": "115", "rating": 2 }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Example response

{
  "rank_eval": {
    "metric_score": 0.7,
      "details": {
      "query_1": {                           
        "metric_score": 0.9,                      
        "unrated_docs": [                         
          {
            "_index": "shakespeare",
            "_id": "1234567"
          }, ...
        ],
        "hits": [
          {
            "hit": {                              
              "_index": "shakespeare",
              "_type": "page",
              "_id": "1234567",
              "_score": 5.123456789
            },
            "rating": 1
          }, ...
        ],
        "metric_details": {                       
          "precision": {
            "relevant_docs_retrieved": 3,
            "docs_retrieved": 6
          }
        }
      },
      "query_2": { [... ] }
    },
    "failures": { [... ] }
  }
}
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