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Hoss Man commented on LUCENE-954:
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bq. I hate to rain on the parade, but maybe instead of making small
modifications to the way Hits works, it's time to deprecate it?
I agree with your sentiment, but it's somewhat orthogonal to this issue.
If someone opens a Jira issue to deprecate the Hits class, and attaches a patch
that does so and replaces examples of it's usage in the demo and tutorial, i'll
certainly vote for it -- but until then, if people want to try and improve
Hits, there's little reason not to do so.
> Toggle score normalization in Hits
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>
> Key: LUCENE-954
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-954
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Search
> Affects Versions: 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.4
> Environment: any
> Reporter: Christian Kohlschütter
> Fix For: 2.4
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> Attachments: hits-scoreNorm.patch, LUCENE-954.patch
>
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> The current implementation of the "Hits" class sometimes performs score
> normalization.
> In particular, whenever the top-ranked score is bigger than 1.0, it is
> normalized to a maximum of 1.0.
> In this case, Hits may return different score results than TopDocs-based
> methods.
> In my scenario (a federated search system), Hits delievered just plain wrong
> results.
> I was merging results from several sources, all having homogeneous statistics
> (similar to MultiSearcher, but over the Internet using HTTP/XML-based
> protocols).
> Sometimes, some of the sources had a top-score greater than 1, so I ended up
> with garbled results.
> I suggest to add a switch to enable/disable this score-normalization at
> runtime.
> My patch (attached) has an additional peformance benefit, since score
> normalization now occurs only when Hits#score() is called, not when creating
> the Hits result list. Whenever scores are not required, you save one
> multiplication per retrieved hit (i.e., at least 100 multiplications with the
> current implementation of Hits).
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