Boost value

[Michael Hartmann <mi...@web.de>]

Hello,

I am working on Lucene and tried to understand the calculation of the score
value. As far as I understand it works as follows:

(1) idf = ln(numDocs/(docFreq+1))

(2) queryWeight = idf * boost

(3) sumOfSquaredWeights = queryWeight * queryWeight

(4) norm = 1/sqrt(sumOfSquaredWeights)

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??? Question 1: why not

norm = 1/queryWeight
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(5) queryWeight' = queryWeight * norm

(6) weightValue = queryWeight' * idf

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??? Question 2: using (6) and insert (1) - (5) step by step

=> weightValue = idf
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I did only pure algebraical substitutions and it all comes to a simple
formula. The boost value is not needed anymore. Where is my fault?

Thanks,
Michael




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