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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-8025:
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I added DFI and LM as well, they are the worst case: just fall apart completely 
today for omitTFAP because the bogus sumTotalTF=docFreq makes them lose the 
ability to discriminate term importance too.

> compute avgdl correctly for DOCS_ONLY
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>
>                 Key: LUCENE-8025
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8025
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Robert Muir
>         Attachments: LUCENE-8025.patch
>
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> Spinoff of LUCENE-8007:
> If you omit term frequencies, we should score as if all tf values were 1. 
> This is the way it worked for e.g. ClassicSimilarity and you can understand 
> how it degrades. 
> However for sims such as BM25, we bail out on computing avg doclength (and 
> just return a bogus value of 1) today, screwing up stuff related to length 
> normalization too, which is separate.
> Instead of a bogus value, we should substitute sumDocFreq for 
> sumTotalTermFreq (all postings have freq of 1, since you omitted them).



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