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

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

2007-05-09 Thread Sean Timm
Yes, for good (hopefully) or bad. -Sean Shridhar Venkatraman wrote on 5/7/2007, 12:37 AM: Interesting.. Surrogates can also bring the searcher's subjectivity (opinion and context) into it by the learning process ? shridhar Sean Timm wrote: It may not be easy or even possible

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

2007-05-06 Thread Shridhar Venkatraman
Interesting.. Surrogates can also bring the searcher's subjectivity (opinion and context) into it by the learning process ? shridhar Sean Timm wrote: It may not be easy or even possible without major changes, but having global collection statistics would allow scores to be compared across

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?

2007-05-05 Thread Sean Timm
It may not be easy or even possible without major changes, but having global collection statistics would allow scores to be compared across searchers. To do this, the master indexes would need to be able to communicate with each other. An other approach to merging across searchers is