: Not really. The explain scores aren't normalized and I also couldn't : find a way to get the explain data as anything other than a whitespace : formatted text blob from Solr. Keep in mind that they need confidence
the defualt way Solr dumps score explainations is just as plain text, but the Explanation objects are actually fairly well structured, and easy to walk in a custom request handler -- this would let you make direct comparisons of the various peices of the Explanations from doc 1 with doc 2 if you wanted. A custom Similaity class with simplified tf, idf, and queryNorm functions might also help you get scores from the Explain method that are more easily manageable since you'll have predictible query structures hard coded into your application. ie: run the large query once, get the results back, and for each result look at the explanation and pull out the individual pieces of hte explanation and compare them with those of hte other matches to create your own "normalization". -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
