Could be normalized relative to the max score among the matching documents - but I realize that this can only be done AFTER collecting the documents (as the Hits class does currently). It could also be normalized to some "absolute relevance score" that is comparable across queries, but there is no notion of absolute score in Lucene, is there?
Let me explain the problem I am trying to solve: I need to weigh in multiple factors when returing matching documents for a query. Lets say there are 2 factors - one is "relevance" as determined by the IR score (tf, idf, norms etc.) from lucene and another is say "popularity". For example, lets say 2 documents match a query "paris hilton". One document maybe much more popular than another but very close in "relevance". I'd like to find some way of including the popularity of the document in the scoring formula, and I thought the CustomScoreQuery would be useful, but I am realizing that it may not be easy because the "relevance" score from Lucene has no absolute meaning. The relevance score could be 5 or 500 and there is no way for me gauge what that number means and how much I should weigh he "popularity" value relative to it when computing the custom score. So, the best way I can think of doing this right now is as follows: If I need to return n docs as the result, use the Hits API to get a much larger number say 2n or 3n (or till the normalized score relative to the maximum score falls below a certain threshold), and then sort the results by own algorithm which combines the normalized score returned by the Hits API and the popularity. Comments? Thanks Srinivas hossman wrote: > > > : [b] The subQueryScore that is returned in the customScore() API doesnt > seem > : to be normalized. This makes it difficult for me to weight the different > : scores properly. Is there an easy way to get the normalized "text index" > : score in customScore() API so I can easaily weigh in the other factors > : relative to it? > > normalized relative to what? > > > > -Hoss > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Question-on-custom-scoring-tf4264305.html#a12154865 Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
