Good call thank you On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> John: > The spam filter is very aggressive. Try changing the type to "plain > text" rather than rich text or html... > Best, > Erick > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:35 PM, John Blythe <j...@curvolabs.com> wrote: >> thanks guys. >> >> it doesn't depend on absolute scores, but it is leaning on the score as a >> confident metric of sorts. we've found some good standard deviation info >> when plotting out the accuracy of the top result and the relative score >> with the analyzers currently in production and hope to strengthen that >> confidence when it's right and lower it when it's wrong with the latest >> fine-tuning. so far so good, too. >> >> regarding the new question itself, i'd replied to this thread w more info >> but had the system kick it back to me for some reason. maybe i replied too >> much too soon? anyway, it ended up being a result of my query still being >> in the primary query box instead of moving it to the q.alt box. i'd thought >> the "alt" was indicative of it being an *alternate* query strictly >> speaking. changed it to house the query and voila! >> >> thanks- >> >> -- >> *John Blythe* >> Product Manager & Lead Developer >> >> 251.605.3071 | j...@curvolabs.com >> www.curvolabs.com >> >> 58 Adams Ave >> Evansville, IN 47713 >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> >> wrote: >> >>> I was going to post the same advice. If your approach depends on absolute >>> scores, you need to change your approach. >>> >>> wunder >>> Walter Underwood >>> wun...@wunderwood.org >>> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) >>> >>> >>> On May 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: >>> >>> > On 5/20/2015 2:54 PM, John Blythe wrote: >>> >> new question re edismax: when i turn it on (in solr admin) my score goes >>> >> wayyyyyy down. from 772 to 4.9. >>> >> >>> >> what in the edismax query parser would account for that huge nosedive? >>> > >>> > Scores are 100% relative, and the number only has meaning in the context >>> > of that specific query. You cannot compare scores from one query to >>> > scores from another query done with different parameters, especially if >>> > it's using a different query parser, and expect those numbers to mean >>> > anything. >>> > >>> > The actual number is doesn't matter ... what matters is how the >>> > documents score compared to *each other* -- what order the documents >>> > have within a single result. >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Shawn >>> > >>> >>>
