Sorry, this probably wasn't the right mailing list for this question. Sending to java-user@lucene.
Thanks, Nalini On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Nalini Kartha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We're interested in having access to the number of terms in the fields for > a document vs the pre-calculated lengthnorm at scoring time - we want > experiment with different lengthnorm functions so it seems like storing the > raw length and then doing the norm calculation at query time would work. > > Is changing the lengthnorm method on Similarity class to return the raw > number of terms the right way to go to for this? We realize this will > result in taking up more than a byte to store the value but we're OK with > this. Will this break anything else under the hood? > > Thanks, > Nalini >
