On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Quim Sanmarti wrote:
> I've been wondering about whether it would be better to decouple not only
> display from query evaluation, but also scoring/ranking from retrieval.
In some sense, it already is decoupled in the 3.2 code--the scores aren't
stored in the database but calculated by htsearch on-the-fly. The only
"scoring" that must be done with retrieval is marking fuzzy queries with
the appropriate weighting from search_algorithm.
The one catch is that if you do some preliminary scoring/ranking as you
retrieve the documents, you can do some filtering as you go.
> would allow the eventual evolution of htdig into a distributed IR system. It
> would even allow the integration of different search engines in such a
Sure--this just expands the "collections" a bit. But there's a lot of
information in the template variables which may not be available from
other search engines.
-Geoff
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