On 2/28/07, Pierre-Yves LANDRON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A silly question, but I think the subject isn't cover on the Solr wiki : I'd like to use the score returned by Solr to give the user an estimation of the response adequacy to his request (ok, that's what the score is for...). But I cannot figure the meaning of this score : is it a precentage of the response relevancy ? is it absolute, or relative to others given response ? Is it the raw Lucene score (perhaps I'm wrong but it doesn't seems it is in my case) ? Is there a way to obtain a meaningful score ( ie: human readable ) ?
It's the raw lucene score. Some lucene functions normalize the score by dividing all scores by the top score in matching documents, if that top score is greater than 1. Solr also returns maxScore so you can do the same if you desire. -Yonik
