Correct. The relevancy score simply states that we think result #1 is more relevant than result #2. It doesn't say that #1 is relevant.
The score doesn't have any validity across queries either, as, for example, a different number of query terms will cause the score to change. Upayavira On Tue, May 26, 2015, at 08:57 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo wrote: > Hi Arslan, > > Thank you for the link. That means we are not advisable to show anything > that's related to the relevancy score, even though the default sorting of > the result is by relevancy score? Since showing the raw relevancy score > does not make any sense to the user since they won't understand what it > means too. > > > Regards, > Edwin > > > > On 26 May 2015 at 14:16, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > > Hi Edwin, > > > > Somehow, it is not recommended to display the relevancy score in > > percentage: > > https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ScoresAsPercentages > > > > Ahmet > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:34 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo < > > edwinye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Would like to check, does the new version of Solr allows this function of > > display the relevancy score in percentage? > > I understand from the older version that it is not able to, and the only > > way is to take the highest score and use that as 100%, and calculate other > > percentage from that number (For example if the max score is 10 and the > > next result has a score of 5, you would do (5 / 10) * 100 = 50%) > > > > Is there a better way to do this now? I'm using Solr 5.1 > > > > > > Regards, > > Edwin > >
