Edit: There is only one shard being used in this mapping. 

On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 9:56:51 AM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am having a problem understanding how scoring of nested documents works. 
> I have found other people with similar questions which have remained 
> unanswered:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25619632/elasticsearch-how-is-the-score-for-nested-queries-computed
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26263562/elasticsearch-boost-score-with-nested-query
>
> The relevant section of my current mapping (with nested parts) is:
> mappings: {
>
>     person: {
>         properties: {
>             city: {
>                 type: nested
>                 properties: {
>                     visityear: {
>                         type: integer
>                     }
>                     name: {
>                         type: string
>                     }
>                 }
>             }
>         }
>     }
>
> }
>
> If I have three people who have visited different numbers of cities and I 
> search for a common city they have all visited I get different score 
> values. The person who visited the greatest number of cities is ranked 
> first, with the person who visited only one city getting a score of 1 
> (currently ranked lowest). The output of the explanation is that hthe score 
> is based on 'child doc range from 0 to x'. My question is how do TF, IDF 
> and Field Norm work for nested documents when the score is being 
> calculated? 
>
> Many thanks,
> Barry
>

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