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Mark Miller edited comment on LUCENE-1896 at 9/7/09 2:55 PM:
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Hmm .. so perhaps the idea that the query scores are more comparable comes from:

if we take it out, that means the score will be the cosine times the euclidean 
distance - the distance will be rather large for a small query vector and a 
large doc vector (in magnitude). So a query that matched many large docs would 
could scale a lot harder than a query that hit small docs?

I guess that makes sense - scores not being very comparable anyway though, it 
hardly seems worth the extra compute cost ...

      was (Author: markrmil...@gmail.com):
    Hmm .. so perhaps the idea that they query scores are more comparable comes 
from:

if we take it out, that means the score will be the cosine X the euclidean 
distance - the distance will be rather large for a small query vector and a 
large doc vector (in magnitude). So a query that matched many large docs would 
could scale a lot harder than a query that hit small docs?

I guess that makes sense - scores not being very comparable anyway though, it 
hardly seems worth the extra compute cost ...
  
> Modify confusing javadoc for queryNorm
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-1896
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1896
>             Project: Lucene - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Javadocs
>            Reporter: Jiri Kuhn
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.9
>
>
> See http://markmail.org/message/arai6silfiktwcer
> The javadoc confuses me as well.

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