Re: solr score threashold

2016-01-20 Thread Doug Turnbull
What problem are you trying to solve? If you're trying to cut out "bad" results, I might suggest explicitly using filters that eliminate undesirable search items in terms that are meaningful to how your users evaluate relevance. For example, let's say your users only want items that have at least

Re: solr score threashold

2016-01-20 Thread Walter Underwood
The ScoresAsPercentages page is not really instructions for how to normalize scores. It is an explanation of why a score threshold does not do what you want. Don’t use thresholds. If you want thresholds, you will need a search engine with a probabilistic model, like Verity K2. Those generally gi

Re: solr score threashold

2016-01-20 Thread Emir Arnautovic
Hi Sara, You can use funct and frange to achive needed, but note that scores are not normalized meaning score 8 does not mean it is good match - it is just best match. There are examples online how to normalize score (e.g. http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ScoresAsPercentages). Other approach