RE: Newbie questions re: scoring

2006-05-04 Thread Chris Hostetter
: That link appears to be referring to normalized scores (everything is < : 1.0). Is it also not safe to use a threshold for raw scores? Nope. The basic flaw in comparing scores between two queries still holds ... early messages in the threads linked to go into more detail, but as i recall, the

RE: Newbie questions re: scoring

2006-05-04 Thread John Hamilton
> 2) independent of the scores being different, it is not safe to try and > pick a score threshold, this is mentioned in the FAQ... > > http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LuceneFAQ#head-912c1f237bb00259185353182948e5935f0c2f03 That link appears to be referring to normalized scores (everythin

Re: Newbie questions re: scoring

2006-05-04 Thread Chris Hostetter
: 1) I create an index with one document with a searchable field of "All : dogs are brown." If I search on that index with a query of "All dogs : are brown." I do not get a hit with score 1.0, but something low like : 0.38. I tried looking at the scoring algorithm and can't make heads or : tail