Re: Similarity plugins which are normalized

2018-11-29 Thread Tanya Bompi
Thanks a lot Doug. Maybe setting more importance to certain fields is the way to go in conjunction with the overall match. Tanu On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 1:52 PM Doug Turnbull < dturnb...@opensourceconnections.com> wrote: > The usual advice is relevance scores don’t exist on a scale where a > thre

Re: Similarity plugins which are normalized

2018-11-29 Thread Doug Turnbull
The usual advice is relevance scores don’t exist on a scale where a threshold is useful. As these are just heuristics used for ranking , not a confidence level. I would instead focus on what attributes of a document consider it relevant or not (strong match in certain fields). A couple of things

Similarity plugins which are normalized

2018-11-29 Thread Tanya Bompi
Hi, As I am tuning the relevancy of my query parser, I see that 2 different queries with phrase matches get very different scores primarily influenced by the Term Frequency component. Since I am using a threshold to filter the results for a matched record based off the SOLR score, a somewhat nor