Maybe joseph means 'percentage of the theoretical maximum score' for the query? See this thread: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/61075?search_string=theoretical%20maximum%20score;#61075
Peter On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: > But to echo Chris, what does percentage mean? The percent > of the words that matched? So, in your example, > would document one match 75%, doc two 50% and > doc three 100%? And what would that mean to a user? > > I think it would help if you backed up and told us *why* > you want these percentages. A higher level view than > just asking "how do I calculate percent". I have the > feeling that this is an XY problem. i.e. you're asking > about X, but the real problem is Y which may be unrelated. > > Best > Erick > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:42 AM, joseph.christopher > <jos...@kottsoftware.com>wrote: > > > > > > > joseph.christopher wrote: > > > > > > > > > thanks for the reply, > > > > > > By percentage, what I meant is that how much matching is the retrived > > > result with the search query. > > > > > > for exmple : if I have 3 indexed documnts like > > > > > > 1) chicken onion cheese pizza > > > > > > 2) mixed vegetable cheese pizza > > > > > > 3) cheese pizza > > > > > > and I searched for "chicken cheese pizza" > > > > > > Is it possibe that the system can give a percentage match score for the > > > search result ,compairing it with the search query. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Experts, > > > > > > We are in a procees of changing our existing fuzzy search engine to > > > lucene, > > > but we are facing a roadblock > > > here ie, in our existing system we are showing the search score in > > > percenetage but lucene provides the search score in numbers which is > > > derived > > > from some internal logic. Can anybody give some tips for converting the > > > lucene score to percentage or is there any way to retrive the score as > > > percentage from lucene search. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > View this message in context: > > > > > > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-het-the-score-in-percentage-tp23293723p23293723.html > > > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://www.nabble.com/How-to-het-the-score-in-percentage-tp23293756p23384986.html > > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > >
