Hi, In general I think that the fieldNorm factor in the score calculation is quite good. But when the text is short I think that the effect is two big.
Ie with two documents that have a short text in the same field, just a few characters extra in of the documents lower the fieldNorm factor too much. In one test the text in document 1 is 30 characters long and has fieldNorm 0.4375, and in document 2 the text is 37 characters long and has fieldNorm 0.375. That means that the first document gets almost a 20% higher score simply because of the 7 character difference. What are my options if I want to change this behavior? Can I set a lower character limit, meaning that all fields with a length below this limit gets the same fieldNorm value? I know I can force fieldNorm to be 1 by setting omitNorms="true" for that field, but I would prefer to still have it, just limit its effect on short texts. Regards /Jimi
