Thanks Erik, that works great-- Donna
>> It is unfortunate that some scores are being normalized and some >> may not >> be. Is there a >> way to obtain the unnormalized score? >Any IndexSearcher.search method that does not return Hits keeps the >raw scores. Try out the TopDocs returning ones or use a HitCollector. Donna L. Gresh Services Research, Mathematical Sciences Department IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (914) 945-2472 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/donnagresh [EMAIL PROTECTED]