There is doc for tf*idf scoring in the javadoc:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/5_0_0/core/org/apache/lucene/search/similarities/TFIDFSimilarity.html
The IndexSearcher#explain method returns an Explanation structure which
details the scoring for a document:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/5_0_0/core/o
Hi Ali,
The short answer to your question is... there's no good way to create a
score from your result string, without using the Lucene index, that will be
directly comparable to the Lucene score. The reason is that the score
isn't just a function of the query and the contents of the document. I
