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Grant Ingersoll commented on LUCENE-1896: ----------------------------------------- I know the queryNorm was based on some long ago research on it, but I don't know that it has proven to be all that useful. There are certainly others who have done work on this, too. In the end, I don't think the current implementation is all that useful and we could likely save a few ops by removing it, or giving people more powerful ways of changing it. The bottom line, I think, is you shouldn't compare scores across queries. Often times, you can't even compare scores for the same query if the underlying index changed. I also don't understand Marvin's comment about "completeness in the implementation of cosine similarity" nor the comment about scores being "closer together than farther apart". > Modify confusing javadoc for queryNorm > -------------------------------------- > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org