We want the user to see how relevant the result is with respect to the search query entered, and not how "good" the results are. But I suspect a problem is that the 1st record will always be 100%, regardless of what is the score, as the 1st record score will always be equals to the maxScore.
Regards, Edwin On 26 May 2015 at 19:36, Daniel Collins <danwcoll...@gmail.com> wrote: > The question is more why do you want your users to see the scores? > > If they are wanting to affect ranking, what you want is the ability to run > the same query with different boosting and see the difference (2 result > sets), then see if the new ordering is better or worse. What the > actual/raw score is is irrelevant to that, what is important is ordering? > If you want to show how "good" your results are, then as the link shows, > that is very difficult to measure (and very subjective!) > > On 26 May 2015 at 09:37, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > > Correct. The relevancy score simply states that we think result #1 is > > more relevant than result #2. It doesn't say that #1 is relevant. > > > > The score doesn't have any validity across queries either, as, for > > example, a different number of query terms will cause the score to > > change. > > > > Upayavira > > > > On Tue, May 26, 2015, at 08:57 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo wrote: > > > Hi Arslan, > > > > > > Thank you for the link. That means we are not advisable to show > anything > > > that's related to the relevancy score, even though the default sorting > of > > > the result is by relevancy score? Since showing the raw relevancy score > > > does not make any sense to the user since they won't understand what it > > > means too. > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Edwin > > > > > > > > > > > > On 26 May 2015 at 14:16, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com.invalid> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Edwin, > > > > > > > > Somehow, it is not recommended to display the relevancy score in > > > > percentage: > > > > https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ScoresAsPercentages > > > > > > > > Ahmet > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:34 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo < > > > > edwinye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Would like to check, does the new version of Solr allows this > function > > of > > > > display the relevancy score in percentage? > > > > I understand from the older version that it is not able to, and the > > only > > > > way is to take the highest score and use that as 100%, and calculate > > other > > > > percentage from that number (For example if the max score is 10 and > the > > > > next result has a score of 5, you would do (5 / 10) * 100 = 50%) > > > > > > > > Is there a better way to do this now? I'm using Solr 5.1 > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Edwin > > > > > > >
