Thanks. Good to know, but even so my problem remains - the end score should not be different and is causing a dramatically different ranking of a document (3 versus 7 is dramatic for my client). This must be down to the scoring debug differences - it's the only difference I can find :(
On Mar 9, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Jayendra Patil wrote: > queryNorm is just a normalizing factor and is the same value across > all the results for a query, to just make the scores comparable. > So even if it varies in different environment, you should not worried about. > > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/search/Similarity.html#formula_queryNorm > - > Defination - queryNorm(q) is just a normalizing factor used to make > scores between queries comparable. This factor does not affect > document ranking (since all ranked documents are multiplied by the > same factor), but rather just attempts to make scores from different > queries (or even different indexes) comparable > > Regards, > Jayendra > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Allistair Crossley <a...@roxxor.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am seeing an issue I do not understand and hope that someone can shed some >> light on this. The issue is that for a particular search we are seeing a >> particular result rank in position 3 on one machine and position 8 on the >> production machine. The position 3 is our desired and roughly expected >> ranking. >> >> I have a local machine with solr and a version deployed on a production >> server. My local machine's solr and the production version are both checked >> out from our project's SVN trunk. They are identical files except for the >> data files (not in SVN) and database connection settings. >> >> The index is populated exclusively via data import handler queries to a >> database. >> >> I have exported the production database as-is to my local development >> machine so that my local machine and production have access to the self same >> data. >> >> I execute a total full-import on both. >> >> Still, I see a different position for this document that should surely rank >> in the same location, all else being equal. >> >> I ran debugQuery diff to see how the scores were being computed. See >> appendix at foot of this email. >> >> As far as I can tell every single query normalisation block of the debug is >> marginally different, e.g. >> >> - 0.021368012 = queryNorm (local) >> + 0.009944122 = queryNorm (production) >> >> Which leads to a final score of -2 versus +1 which is enough to skew the >> results from correct to incorrect (in terms of what we expect to see). >> >> - -2.286596 (local) >> +1.0651637 = (production) >> >> I cannot explain this difference. The database is the same. The >> configuration is the same. I have fully imported from scratch on both >> servers. What am I missing? >> >> Thank you for your time >> >> Allistair >> >> ----- snip >> >> APPENDIX - debugQuery=on DIFF >> >> --- untitled >> +++ (clipboard) >> @@ -1,51 +1,49 @@ >> -<str name="L12411p"> >> +<str name="L12411"> >> >> -2.286596 = (MATCH) sum of: >> - 1.6891675 = (MATCH) sum of: >> - 1.3198489 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: >> - 0.023022119 = (MATCH) weight(text:dubai^0.1 in 1551), product of: >> - 0.011795795 = queryWeight(text:dubai^0.1), product of: >> - 0.1 = boost >> +1.0651637 = (MATCH) sum of: >> + 0.7871359 = (MATCH) sum of: >> + 0.6151879 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: >> + 0.10713901 = (MATCH) weight(text:dubai in 1551), product of: >> + 0.05489459 = queryWeight(text:dubai), product of: >> 5.520305 = idf(docFreq=65, maxDocs=6063) >> - 0.021368012 = queryNorm >> + 0.009944122 = queryNorm >> 1.9517226 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(text:dubai in 1551), product of: >> 1.4142135 = tf(termFreq(text:dubai)=2) >> 5.520305 = idf(docFreq=65, maxDocs=6063) >> 0.25 = fieldNorm(field=text, doc=1551) >> - 1.3196187 = (MATCH) weight(profile:dubai^2.0 in 1551), product of: >> - 0.32609802 = queryWeight(profile:dubai^2.0), product of: >> + 0.6141165 = (MATCH) weight(profile:dubai^2.0 in 1551), product of: >> + 0.15175761 = queryWeight(profile:dubai^2.0), product of: >> 2.0 = boost >> 7.6305184 = idf(docFreq=7, maxDocs=6063) >> - 0.021368012 = queryNorm >> + 0.009944122 = queryNorm >> 4.0466933 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(profile:dubai in 1551), product of: >> 1.4142135 = tf(termFreq(profile:dubai)=2) >> 7.6305184 = idf(docFreq=7, maxDocs=6063) >> 0.375 = fieldNorm(field=profile, doc=1551) >> - 0.36931866 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: >> - 0.0018293816 = (MATCH) weight(text:product^0.1 in 1551), product of: >> - 0.003954251 = queryWeight(text:product^0.1), product of: >> - 0.1 = boost >> + 0.17194802 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: >> + 0.00851347 = (MATCH) weight(text:product in 1551), product of: >> + 0.018402064 = queryWeight(text:product), product of: >> 1.8505468 = idf(docFreq=2589, maxDocs=6063) >> - 0.021368012 = queryNorm >> + 0.009944122 = queryNorm >> 0.4626367 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(text:product in 1551), product of: >> 1.0 = tf(termFreq(text:product)=1) >> 1.8505468 = idf(docFreq=2589, maxDocs=6063) >> 0.25 = fieldNorm(field=text, doc=1551) >> - 0.36930037 = (MATCH) weight(profile:product^2.0 in 1551), product of: >> - 0.1725098 = queryWeight(profile:product^2.0), product of: >> + 0.17186289 = (MATCH) weight(profile:product^2.0 in 1551), product of: >> + 0.08028162 = queryWeight(profile:product^2.0), product of: >> 2.0 = boost >> 4.036637 = idf(docFreq=290, maxDocs=6063) >> - 0.021368012 = queryNorm >> + 0.009944122 = queryNorm >> 2.14075 = (MATCH) fieldWeight(profile:product in 1551), product of: >> 1.4142135 = tf(termFreq(profile:product)=2) >> 4.036637 = idf(docFreq=290, maxDocs=6063) >> 0.375 = fieldNorm(field=profile, doc=1551) >> - 0.59742856 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: >> - 0.59742856 = weight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5 in 1551), product of: >> - 0.12465195 = queryWeight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5), product of: >> + 0.27802786 = (MATCH) max plus 0.01 times others of: >> + 0.27802786 = weight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5 in 1551), product of: >> + 0.05800981 = queryWeight(profile:"dubai product"~10^0.5), product of: >> 0.5 = boost >> 11.667155 = idf(profile: dubai=7 product=290) >> - 0.021368012 = queryNorm >> + 0.009944122 = queryNorm >> 4.7927732 = fieldWeight(profile:"dubai product" in 1551), product of: >> 1.0954452 = tf(phraseFreq=1.2) >> 11.667155 = idf(profile: dubai=7 product=290) >> >> >> >>