I was going to post the same advice. If your approach depends on absolute scores, you need to change your approach.
wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) On May 20, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 5/20/2015 2:54 PM, John Blythe wrote: >> new question re edismax: when i turn it on (in solr admin) my score goes >> wayyyyyy down. from 772 to 4.9. >> >> what in the edismax query parser would account for that huge nosedive? > > Scores are 100% relative, and the number only has meaning in the context > of that specific query. You cannot compare scores from one query to > scores from another query done with different parameters, especially if > it's using a different query parser, and expect those numbers to mean > anything. > > The actual number is doesn't matter ... what matters is how the > documents score compared to *each other* -- what order the documents > have within a single result. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
