No, they should not be compared. Scores are only relative to each
other for that given input query, despite what the queryNorm docs
say. The queryNorm was an attempt at doing it, but my understanding
of the research still indicates they are not comparable.
-Grant
On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:0
Hi all,
I am wondering if the raw scores obtained from HitCollector can be used to
compare relevance of documents to different queries?
E.g. two phrase queries are issued : (PQ1: "Barack Obama" and PQ2: "John
McCain"). if a document (doc1) belongs to the result sets of both queries
and has th
