Hi, I'm interested in implementing a few new scoring algorithms in Lucene and I was wondering if anyone had attempted this in the past and how successful they had been. If there are any resources that someone could point me to that would be great, Googling and searching the mailing-list archives didn't turn up anything.
After looking over the current implementation of tf-idf scoring, I concluded that the weighting and scoring framework is mostly implemented in TermQuery and TermScorer classes. I am thinking of extending these classes and replacing a few others to implement the new algorithm. Am I heading in the right direction? Does it make sense to try and extend these classes or should I try building a parallel heirarchy to do this? Thank you for your time, - Shailesh
