On 2/23/2018 2:28 PM, Hodder, Rick wrote: > Combining everything into one query is what I'd prefer because as you said, > one would think that with everything in the same query, the score would > organize everything nicely.
I don't recall writing anything like that. How did you infer that from what I wrote? One thing that you can infer from what I said is that comparing scores from multiple queries is not going to do what you think it will do. Which leads into the next thing I'll quote from your message: > So the way we had addressed it was running 3 separate SOLR queries and > combining them and sorting them by descending score - wasn’t perfect, but it > worked, and helped me to reduce the number of results we hand off to a > scoring engine that applies 3 algorithms (Monge-Elkan, Jaro-Winkler, and > SmithWindowed Affline) to further hone the results - which can take LOTS of > time if there are a lot of results, so It seems that you didn't finish your sentence, and may not have even finished the message, as this was the last thing you wrote. Running three separate queries and then trying to combine them based on score is not something you should ever attempt, because as I mentioned before, the absolute score of a document in a result is only meaningful for that specific query done at that moment. Even the same query done later after something has changed might have a very different score range. Thanks, Shawn
