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Paul Elschot commented on LUCENE-1302:
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> Is it somewhat strange for BQ to count a negative score contributer for its
> minNrShouldMatch condition?
The count of the number of matchers in BooleanQuery depends on the return
values of next() and skipTo() only. It could be made to ignore scorers with a
negative score value, but that would mean another option in BooleanScorer.
> explain should not mask negative scores
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> Key: LUCENE-1302
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1302
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Query/Scoring
> Reporter: Doron Cohen
> Assignee: Doron Cohen
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.4
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> Attachments: lucene-1302-explain-negative.patch
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> Explanation.isMatch() returns false for 0 or negative scores.
> Hence negative scores are omitted from the explanation.
> This causes, when using e.g. BoostingTermQuery with negative boosts, a
> difference between the collected doc score and the score shown by explain().
> A word on the usage of this - BTQ with negative boosts is useful for
> "punishing" documents for containing a term. It also allows all sorts of
> tricks with multiplying query boost by the BTQ boost, so you get a positive
> score if both boosts have the same sign but negative otherwise. - I am sure
> there other uses as well.
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