Chris & Erick's arguments are persuasive , however we do live in an imperfect world. Most of our users want to see the relative importance of a results vis-a-vis the rest....
Relative Importance (%) = (d - dmin)/(dmax-dmin) * 100 Where dmax is the highest Lucene score (score of top result) and dmin is the least (the score of the last result) and d = current score. This would work for any n results. While this might be technically 'meh', we took a simple normalization approach of Lucene scores, it helped the users in gauging the relative importance and relate better. End of day, isn't that what matters most? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
