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Adrien Grand updated LUCENE-7996:
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Description:
Having worked on MAXSCORE recently, things would be simpler if we required that
scores are positive. Practically, this would mean
- forbidding/fixing similarities that may produce negative scores (we have
some of them)
- forbidding things like negative boosts
So I'd be curious to have opinions whether this would be a sane requirement or
whether we need to be able to cope with negative scores eg. because some
similarities that we want to support produce negative scores by design.
was:
Having worked on MAXSCORE recently, things would be simpler if we required that
scores are positive. Practically, this would mean
- forbidding/fixing similarities that may produce negative scores (we have
some of them)
- forbidding things like negative boosts
- fixing the scoring formula of some queries like {{BoostingQuery}} (which
subtracts a score to another score) so that the end result may never be negative
So I'd be curious to have opinions whether this would be a sane requirement or
whether we need to be able to cope with negative scores eg. because some
similarities that we want to support produce negative scores by design.
> Should we require positive scores?
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> Key: LUCENE-7996
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-7996
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Adrien Grand
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: LUCENE-7996.patch, LUCENE-7996.patch
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> Having worked on MAXSCORE recently, things would be simpler if we required
> that scores are positive. Practically, this would mean
> - forbidding/fixing similarities that may produce negative scores (we have
> some of them)
> - forbidding things like negative boosts
> So I'd be curious to have opinions whether this would be a sane requirement
> or whether we need to be able to cope with negative scores eg. because some
> similarities that we want to support produce negative scores by design.
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