Elasticsearch is an open source distributed search and analytics engine, often used to store and search through text data (e.g., logs, documents, articles). It’s commonly integrated with NLP workflows for:

  • Storing extracted named entities or keywords
  • Enabling full-text search over processed corpora
  • Ranking documents based on custom scoring

Use Cases:

  • Search systems over preprocessed corpora
  • Document similarity lookup
  • Named entity indexing

Integration Example:

  • Use spaCy to extract keywords or metadata
  • Store results in Elasticsearch index
  • Use query interface to retrieve matching or related docs

Exploratory Questions:

  • How does spaCy output map to ElasticSearch indexing fields?
  • Can entity relationships or dependency trees be indexed effectively?
  • How can TF-IDF or vector search (e.g., via Elastic’s k-NN or OpenSearch) be layered in?