The formula of ScoreDoc.score. in Lucene











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I want to create a research engine using Lucene. From Lucene documentation, I noticed that ScoreDoc.score gives the similarity score between the document and query.



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      I want to create a research engine using Lucene. From Lucene documentation, I noticed that ScoreDoc.score gives the similarity score between the document and query.



      I want to know how the similarity score is calculated?



      Please help me..










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      I want to create a research engine using Lucene. From Lucene documentation, I noticed that ScoreDoc.score gives the similarity score between the document and query.



      I want to know how the similarity score is calculated?



      Please help me..







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          Similarly score is calculated based on the similarly model being used in the field on which user is doing the query. There are two I am aware of tf-idf and another is BM25.



          Both of those uses the documents characterstics like doc length, word frequency, idf etc. So you could go through this link if it helps






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          • That link doesn't really explain much about how BM25 works - a much better explanation can be found at BM25 - The Next Generation of Lucene Relevation. BM25 is the default similarity in Solr these days.
            – MatsLindh
            Nov 23 at 19:30












          • @MatsLindhThe page not found
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:30












          • @AmanTandon I would like to normalize the scores in Lucene, Do you know how to do this?
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:36










          • @Noran Please refer the github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/releases/lucene-solr/6.4.0/… You can divide the score given by scoring algo (BM25) by the max score returned by the getMaxScore to normalize the score, however could you explain why you want to normalize those values?
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:37












          • @Noran Here is the corrected link which Mats provided and gives the good explanation of BM25. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/…
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:39













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          Similarly score is calculated based on the similarly model being used in the field on which user is doing the query. There are two I am aware of tf-idf and another is BM25.



          Both of those uses the documents characterstics like doc length, word frequency, idf etc. So you could go through this link if it helps






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          • That link doesn't really explain much about how BM25 works - a much better explanation can be found at BM25 - The Next Generation of Lucene Relevation. BM25 is the default similarity in Solr these days.
            – MatsLindh
            Nov 23 at 19:30












          • @MatsLindhThe page not found
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:30












          • @AmanTandon I would like to normalize the scores in Lucene, Do you know how to do this?
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:36










          • @Noran Please refer the github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/releases/lucene-solr/6.4.0/… You can divide the score given by scoring algo (BM25) by the max score returned by the getMaxScore to normalize the score, however could you explain why you want to normalize those values?
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:37












          • @Noran Here is the corrected link which Mats provided and gives the good explanation of BM25. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/…
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:39

















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          1
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          Similarly score is calculated based on the similarly model being used in the field on which user is doing the query. There are two I am aware of tf-idf and another is BM25.



          Both of those uses the documents characterstics like doc length, word frequency, idf etc. So you could go through this link if it helps






          share|improve this answer





















          • That link doesn't really explain much about how BM25 works - a much better explanation can be found at BM25 - The Next Generation of Lucene Relevation. BM25 is the default similarity in Solr these days.
            – MatsLindh
            Nov 23 at 19:30












          • @MatsLindhThe page not found
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:30












          • @AmanTandon I would like to normalize the scores in Lucene, Do you know how to do this?
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:36










          • @Noran Please refer the github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/releases/lucene-solr/6.4.0/… You can divide the score given by scoring algo (BM25) by the max score returned by the getMaxScore to normalize the score, however could you explain why you want to normalize those values?
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:37












          • @Noran Here is the corrected link which Mats provided and gives the good explanation of BM25. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/…
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:39















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          Similarly score is calculated based on the similarly model being used in the field on which user is doing the query. There are two I am aware of tf-idf and another is BM25.



          Both of those uses the documents characterstics like doc length, word frequency, idf etc. So you could go through this link if it helps






          share|improve this answer












          Similarly score is calculated based on the similarly model being used in the field on which user is doing the query. There are two I am aware of tf-idf and another is BM25.



          Both of those uses the documents characterstics like doc length, word frequency, idf etc. So you could go through this link if it helps







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          • That link doesn't really explain much about how BM25 works - a much better explanation can be found at BM25 - The Next Generation of Lucene Relevation. BM25 is the default similarity in Solr these days.
            – MatsLindh
            Nov 23 at 19:30












          • @MatsLindhThe page not found
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:30












          • @AmanTandon I would like to normalize the scores in Lucene, Do you know how to do this?
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:36










          • @Noran Please refer the github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/releases/lucene-solr/6.4.0/… You can divide the score given by scoring algo (BM25) by the max score returned by the getMaxScore to normalize the score, however could you explain why you want to normalize those values?
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:37












          • @Noran Here is the corrected link which Mats provided and gives the good explanation of BM25. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/…
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:39




















          • That link doesn't really explain much about how BM25 works - a much better explanation can be found at BM25 - The Next Generation of Lucene Relevation. BM25 is the default similarity in Solr these days.
            – MatsLindh
            Nov 23 at 19:30












          • @MatsLindhThe page not found
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:30












          • @AmanTandon I would like to normalize the scores in Lucene, Do you know how to do this?
            – Noran
            Nov 23 at 20:36










          • @Noran Please refer the github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/releases/lucene-solr/6.4.0/… You can divide the score given by scoring algo (BM25) by the max score returned by the getMaxScore to normalize the score, however could you explain why you want to normalize those values?
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:37












          • @Noran Here is the corrected link which Mats provided and gives the good explanation of BM25. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/…
            – Aman Tandon
            Nov 24 at 7:39


















          That link doesn't really explain much about how BM25 works - a much better explanation can be found at BM25 - The Next Generation of Lucene Relevation. BM25 is the default similarity in Solr these days.
          – MatsLindh
          Nov 23 at 19:30






          That link doesn't really explain much about how BM25 works - a much better explanation can be found at BM25 - The Next Generation of Lucene Relevation. BM25 is the default similarity in Solr these days.
          – MatsLindh
          Nov 23 at 19:30














          @MatsLindhThe page not found
          – Noran
          Nov 23 at 20:30






          @MatsLindhThe page not found
          – Noran
          Nov 23 at 20:30














          @AmanTandon I would like to normalize the scores in Lucene, Do you know how to do this?
          – Noran
          Nov 23 at 20:36




          @AmanTandon I would like to normalize the scores in Lucene, Do you know how to do this?
          – Noran
          Nov 23 at 20:36












          @Noran Please refer the github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/releases/lucene-solr/6.4.0/… You can divide the score given by scoring algo (BM25) by the max score returned by the getMaxScore to normalize the score, however could you explain why you want to normalize those values?
          – Aman Tandon
          Nov 24 at 7:37






          @Noran Please refer the github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/releases/lucene-solr/6.4.0/… You can divide the score given by scoring algo (BM25) by the max score returned by the getMaxScore to normalize the score, however could you explain why you want to normalize those values?
          – Aman Tandon
          Nov 24 at 7:37














          @Noran Here is the corrected link which Mats provided and gives the good explanation of BM25. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/…
          – Aman Tandon
          Nov 24 at 7:39






          @Noran Here is the corrected link which Mats provided and gives the good explanation of BM25. opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/10/16/…
          – Aman Tandon
          Nov 24 at 7:39




















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