Have you looked at: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/scoring.html
<http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/scoring.html>even though it's for 2.4, I don't think there's any relevant changes for 3.x... I'm pretty sure that your supposition 2 is the right one. HTH Erick On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Marc Sturlese <marc.sturl...@gmail.com>wrote: > > I would like to know how Lucene deals with the score on multiValued fields. > I am wandering if: > 1) a score is computed per field and the maximum between them wins > or > 2)all terms of all fields (from the multivalued field) influence eachother > to compute the score > > Let's say I have a document with a multiValued field "content" indexed 3 > times and another document with the field indexed just once > > Doc1: content->aa; content->bb; content->dd ff gg > Doc2: content->aa b > > Searching for content:aa, Doc1 would be more relevant if supososition 1) is > correct. Doc2 would be more relevant if suposition 2) is correct > How does it work? > Thanks in advance > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/score-and-multiValued-fields-tp27922940p27922940.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 > >
