Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-04-10 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
eas. Thank you very much for your time, Daniel -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Einspanjer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Apr 10, 2007 8:04 AM Subject: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure? To: solr-

Re: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-04-10 Thread Grant Ingersoll
On Apr 10, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Daniel Einspanjer wrote: The people reviewing this matching process need some way of determining why a particular match was made other than the overall score. Was it because the title was a perfect match or was it because the title wasn't that close, but the direct

Re: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-04-11 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
Not really. The explain scores aren't normalized and I also couldn't find a way to get the explain data as anything other than a whitespace formatted text blob from Solr. Keep in mind that they need confidence factors from one query to the next. With the explain scores, they can have wildly dif

Re: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-04-11 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
Oh geeze. Gmail ripped my pretty table to shreds. Let me try again: A -- id title title score director director score year year score overall score B -

Re: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Not really. The explain scores aren't normalized and I also couldn't : find a way to get the explain data as anything other than a whitespace : formatted text blob from Solr. Keep in mind that they need confidence the defualt way Solr dumps score explainations is just as plain text, but the Ex

Re: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-05-05 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
On 4/11/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A custom Similaity class with simplified tf, idf, and queryNorm functions might also help you get scores from the Explain method that are more easily manageable since you'll have predictible query structures hard coded into your application

Re: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel Einspanjer
On 4/11/07, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Not really. The explain scores aren't normalized and I also couldn't : find a way to get the explain data as anything other than a whitespace : formatted text blob from Solr. Keep in mind that they need confidence the defualt way Solr du

Re: Ideas for a relevance score that could be considered stable across multiple searches with the same query structure?

2007-05-30 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 5/30/07, Daniel Einspanjer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I quickly found I could do without though was the HTTP overhead. I implemented the EmbeddedSolr class found on the Solr wiki that let me interact with the Solr engine directly. This is important since I'm doing thousands of queries in