The score is an arbitrary number > 0. It's not normalized to anything, it 
should only be used to e.g. sort the results. You cannot even compare scores 
between two searches. They should only be used to compare hits *within* one 
result set (e.g. sort as done in top docs).

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Uwe Schindler
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http://www.thetaphi.de
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clara Vania [mailto:chubz_...@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:03 PM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Range Score in Lucene
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to Lucene and I want to ask about range score that Lucene
> used, because I got score greater than 1.
> I'm using lucene-3.0.1 and using
> MoreLikeThis to do document similarity and ScoreDoc class to get hits
> of my search.
> 
>  Thanks,
> 
> 
> -Clara Vania-
> 
> 
> 


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