Hi all,
I would like to clarify my understanding of the way Lucene score boolean
queries, in relation with +/ clause attributes (required and optional) as well
as OR and AND operators.
After looking at the BooleanScorer source core, the following is my
understanding on the scoring:
1. OR is translated into " " (optional) and AND is translated into "+"
(required) by queryParser
so, is it true that
(t1 t2 t3) AND (t4 t5 t6) OR (t7 t8 t9) is parsed by queryParser into the
following boolan query
+(t1 t2 t3) +(t4 t5 t6) (t7 t8 t9)
2. using default similarity, a score of a document score(q,d) is the summation
of the tf, idf measure of the terms in q that appear in d.
3. Score of a document w.r.t BooleanClause, BC (score(BC,d)) is the sum of
score of the document w.r.t sall sub clauses of BC.
4. no difference in treating "+" clauses and " " clauses in scoring (i.e. their
scorer.score() are summed up together to produce the total score of their
parent' score), however, the addition of the scores of " " clauses are delayed
until all "+" are matched by the documents. If not all "+" mare matched, the
document is not retrieved.
-----C1----- ----C2----- ----C3----- ------C4-------
q = +{+(t1 t2 t3) +(t4 t5 t6) (t7 t8 t9)} {t10 t11 t12}
assuming a document,d match C1 and C2, the s(q,d) = sum(sum(s(C1,d) + s(C2,d)
+ s(C3, d)), s(C4,d))
Please let me know whether the above are true. In case there are something I
miss to understand the scoring of booleanScorer, please let me know.
best regards
maggy
