Re: Maximum score estimation

Actually, I believe that the Lucene scoring function is based on *Okapi BM25* (BM is an abbreviation of best matching) which is based on the probabilistic retrieval framework developed in the 1970s and 1980s by Stephen E. Robertson

Re: Maximum score estimation

That article is copied from the old wiki, so it is much earlier than 2019, more like 2009. Unfortunately, the links to the email discussion are all dead, but the issues in the article are still true. If you really want to go down that path, you might be able to do it with a similarity class tha