On 27-May-08, at 3:16 PM, Phillip Farber wrote:
Hi all,
I've been looking without success for a simple explanation of the
effect of omitNorms=false for a text field. Can someone point me to
the relevant doc?
The length of the field, as well as field and document boosts, will
not affec
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 01:37:57 Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> If you have tokenized fields of variable size and you want the field length
> to affect the relevance score, then you do not want to omit norms.
> Omitting norms is good for fields where length is of no importance (e.g.
> gender="Male" vs
If you have tokenized fields of variable size and you want the field length to
affect the relevance score, then you do not want to omit norms. Omitting norms
is good for fields where length is of no importance (e.g. gender="Male" vs.
gender="Female"). Omitting norms saves you heap/RAM, one byt
