Tuning MoreLikeThis scoring algorithm

2021-05-28 Thread TK Solr
I'd like to have suggestions on changing the scoring algorithm of MoreLikeThis. When I feed the identical string as the content of a document in the index to MoreLikeThis.like("field", new StringReader(docContent)), I get a score less than 1.0 (0.944 in one of my test cases) that I expect. What

Re: Tuning MoreLikeThis scoring algorithm

2021-05-28 Thread Robert Muir
See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/ScoresAsPercentages which has some broken nabble links, but is still valid. TLDR: Scoring just doesn't work the way you think. Don't try to interpret it as an absolute value, it is a relative one. On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 1:36 PM TK Solr wrot