Hi I am having problems understanding lucenes scoring. I am using the
Musicbrainz which uses Lucene to provide searching facility over its
data, which put simply consists of a database about recording artists ,
albums and song titles
I can construct a query such as:
track:Minus AND
Paul,
That is because the Hits class is likely being used under the covers. When you
use the IndexSearcher's search(...) method that returns Hits, hit scores are
normalized, so they are always between 0 and 1. If you want the raw scores,
and it sounds like you do, you could use a lower-level
Hi Otis
thanks, so the scores are relative to the result set.
Unfortunately I only have access to an xmlwebservice that let me send a
lucene query so I don't have access to the various IndexSearcher
methods. So it sounds like rather than just taking the top result and
using that Ill have to
