: It's the *same* coefficient for all sub-clauses, so it shouldn't affect : rankings, BUT... relative rankings *will* be affected is some inner clauses : have custom boost values.
For things like ConstantScoreQuery and BoostingQuery or any user created Query classes that try to return specific, meaningful, score values queryNorm may not make sense. According to Doug on Jan-12 2006... http://www.nabble.com/AW%3A-Boolean-Query-to2337821.html#a2345914 >> The tf(), idf(), lengthNorm() and queryNorm() are directly from the >> cosine measure, although lengthNorm()'s default implemenation uses an >> approximation. ...so that's why it was put it in. is it useful? "eh" ... it seems to be. in doing some email searches to try and jog my memory on this topic, i found the comment below, aparently made by me.... http://www.nabble.com/The-values-which-compute-scores.-to10882263.html#a10904882 >> As i recall, a more practical purpose for the queryNorm is that when >> dealing with large complex query structures consisting of "container" >> queries (BooleanQueries, DisjunctionMaxQueries, SpanNearQueries, >> etc...) the queryNorm is applied to the the "leaf" queries as the >> computation proceeds, which helps keep the scores from getting >> unmanagably large (and loosing precision) as they are aggregated up. >> >> when dealing with floats, where 0<n<1 ... >> A*n + B*n + C*n + ... Z*n >> ...results in more "precise" calculation then... >> (A + B C + ... + Z)*n >> >> ...correct? ...but that might be a load of crap, no one smarter then me ever verified that, and i can't find where i got the impression that that was actually one of the reasons for queryNorm. : It seems to me, conceptually, like code that claims to perform "normalization" : shouldn't be able to affect rankings. However, because of this side effect of : incorporating boost at the normalization stage, it can. I'm not following your agrument ... i can see how a non-standard Query class might cause some interesting things to happen if you change the queryNorm() impl, but i cna't think of any way that rankings of results from BooleanQueries o TermQueries and PhraseQueries (etc.) would change if you used a different function. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
