dsmiley commented on PR #14433: URL: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/14433#issuecomment-2795033321
The need is to incorporate a field's position length in a composable/flexible relevance formula. A LongValues is the way to do that. I understand a Lucene user could write a custom Similarity, which may be good for advanced search teams but most search teams would prefer to use use a flexible expression of some kind (hence a LongValues implementation at the Lucene layer) to trade some potential performance for expedience & simplicity (no-code). Maybe a name like simply `norm` would work, documented to be whatever the Similarity says it is. Thus it wouldn't risk misadvertising itself as something it may not be. The method I added to Similarity would then be named just `decodeNorm`. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@lucene.apache.org
