Re: non-relative scoring

2007-02-13 Thread Walter Underwood
You can declare the top result to be 100% and scale from there. "Percent relevant" is not a concept that really holds together. What does it mean to be 100% relevant? I'm not even sure what "twice as relevant" means. A tf.idf engine, like Lucene, might not have a maximum score. What if a document

non-relative scoring

2007-02-13 Thread solr
Is it possible to generate a non-relative score for each result, from solr? I would like to be able to generate a web page that shows the first 3 results' scores as 87%, 73%, and 72%. If the range of solr document match scores were between 0 and 1, it would be easy. But I never know what my MaxS