: I have attempted to find a concise definition of how the Lucene score is : calculated, something that can be understood by most people.
The answer tends to vary based on exactly what type of query you are talking about ... TermQuery? PhraseQuery? BooleanQuery contianing a mix? I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that if you feel like the explanation on the Similarity docs is too verbose, then perhaps what you are looking for isn't an definition, but a simple example. the explain() method can be used to show exactly what hte score calculation is for a given query and a given document. while it won't always show you the *full* picture of what types of scores might be produced by the query (ie if a doc matches all clauses of a BooleanQuery, it won't show you that there would be a coordFactor if it had only matched one) it is the most straight forward way to get a simple understanding of "why is this the score?" for any concrete example. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
