You are probably thinking of SweetSpotSimilarity. You might also want to look at pivoted document normalization.
wunder On Nov 7, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Otis Gospodnetic > <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The name escapes me but Lucene used to have a special Similarity impl for >> this sort of stuff. I think it's still there. >> >> We implemented a slightly better Similarity that used Gaussian distribution >> and was thus smoother. Try doing that. >> >> Otis > > Thanks, Otis. I'll start googling for Solr and Lucene Similarity. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com