Hi Lisa,

The presentation I did at last year's Evergreen conference may be helpful - http://slides.com/kathylussier/evergreen-search. It reviews some of the places where relevance can be adjusted in Evergreen. I've been meaning to use the presentation as a basis for documentation, but I haven't had a chance to get to it.

I don't know if you're going, but I know Mike Rylander is doing a presentation at this year's conference too that might be helpful.

Kathy

On 04/18/2016 09:24 AM, Lisa Setters wrote:
Hi all!

I think I may have posted this to a listserv that I am not a part of on Friday. So, if you replied to that, would you please reply here instead?

I am hoping that someone can help me with some information. I am writing a report on how Evergreen retrieves records.

Specifically, I am looking for information on the theory of information retrieval that undergirds Evergreen. What type of algorithm does it use? How does it determine relevancy? Does it use a specific method in order to index records? How does it determine what records to pull?

In the Evergreen documentation, I discovered that it uses "cover density" in order to determine relevance.

Can anyone provide any more information?

Thank you,


Lisa Setters
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